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92 60 Sir Frank Bowling RA (British, b.1934) SWAN, c.1960s gouache on tinted paper signed lower right; dedicated [for Jack xx] lower left 22.50 by 15.75in. (57.2 by 40cm) Frame Size: 24.5 by 18in. (62.2 by 45.7cm) Provenance: Gifted by the artist to the grandfather of the present owners; Thence by descent Sir Richard Sheridan Patrick Michael Aloysius Franklin Bowling OBE RA, known as Frank Bowling, is a British artist who was born in British Guiana (now Guyana). He is particularly renowned for his large-scale, abstract “Map” paintings, which relate to abstract expressionism, colour field painting and lyrical abstraction. Bowling has been described as “one of Britain’s greatest living abstract painters”, as “one of the most distinguished black artists to emerge from post-war British art schools” and as a “modern master”. British cultural critic and theorist Stuart Hall situates Bowling’s career within a first generation, or “wave” of post-war, Black-British art, one characterised by post-war politics and British decolonisation. He was the first black artist to be elected a member of the Royal Academy of Arts. In 2018 the Irish Museum of Modern Art presented an exhibition of Bowling’s map paintings - Mappa Mundi. €15,000-€20,000 (£12,610-£16,810 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot60