Lot 25: Gordon Walters 1919-1995-Study for Black on White,

Gordon Walters 1919-1995-Study for Black on White, 1965 India ink on paper 61.5x46.0 PROVENANCE Sir Graeme & Lady Florence Davies collection, London Purchased from New Vision Gallery, Auckland 1973 Wellington born Gordon Walters was a pioneer of modernist abstraction in New Zealand This painter showed an unflinching commitment to abstraction at a time when landscape was the norm Walters is best known for his Koru works, whose unique stylisation of the Maori koru motif developed out of a phase of experimentation in the 1950s The geometric spiral form of the koru began appearing consistently in Walters' work from the late 1950s My work is an investigation of positive/ negative relationships within a deliberately limited range of forms; the forms I use have no descriptive value in themselves and are used solely to demonstrate relations I believe that dynamic relations are most clearly expressed by the repetition of a few simple elements GORDON WALTERS