The Sixteen Trust
01 DECEMBER 2021 - 16 DECEMBER 20211. Patrick Hughes
Maeght
Patrick Hughes
Maeght, 2019
Hand painted multiple with archival inkjet, edition of 75,
44.8 x 89.8 x 17.8 cm
ESTIMATE
£5,500 - 7,500
This auction has now ended
Notes
Patrick held his first solo show in 1961 at the Portal Gallery, London. It was the first one-man show by a Pop Artist, though they were not even called that then. A few years later, Hughes made two seminal reverse perspective works, Infinity and Sticking-out Room. In the 1970s Hughes’ name became synonymous with rainbow paintings, which also became very popular as prints and as postcards; people enjoyed them as decoration, but for Hughes the rainbow represented a solid experience.
In the late 1980s Hughes revisited exploiting the difference between perspective and reverspective and solidifying space. For the last 25 years his 3-D reverspective paintings have been hugely in demand, exhibited around the world and featured in many public collections. The experience of seeing a Patrick Hughes sculptured painting in reality is really to experience unreality and the paradox of illusory space and movement.
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