Sir Terry Frost R.A. (1915-2003) – Orange, Brown & Black

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Terry Frost Biography

Sir Terence Ernest Manitou Frost RA (13 October 1915 – 1 September 2003) was a British abstract artist, who worked in Newlyn, Cornwall. Frost was renowned for his use of the Cornish light, colour and shape to start a new art movement in England. He became a leading exponent of abstract art and a recognised figure of the British art establishment.

Orange, Brown & Black

Painted during Terry’s ‘Leeds Period’, the important early work Orange, Brown & Black has never previously been seen in public since the day it was painted. The inspiration for the painting came after a winter walk with Herbert Read, Terry recalled the occasion in his notebook:

I drove through the snow and had lunch with Herbert Read at this house at Stonegrave. After lunch we went for a walk… it was a clear bright day and I looked up and saw the white sun spinning on top of black verticals. The sensation was true. I was spellbound and, of course, when I tried to look again it had gone, just a sun and a copse on the brow of a hill covered in snow’.

This work is considered the prototype for a series of seminal geometric abstract oils including Orange and Black (c.1957, Leeds Art Gallery), Khaki and Lemon (1956 Tate), Red, Black and White (1956, exhibited at Arthur Tooth & Sons ‘Critics Choice’), Khaki, Blue and Orange (1956, Bonhams ‘Modern British & Irish Art’, November 2022).

A rare opportunity to acquire a major and important work by one of the major figures of British abstraction.

Available works by Modern British artists.

Terry Frost artworks in UK public collections.