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Callum Innes — Exposed Painting, Cobalt Violet
Callum Innes

Exposed Painting, Cobalt Violet

A luminous field of cobalt violet oil paint is partially dissolved and wiped away, revealing the bare linen canvas beneath in a gesture that is at once destructive and meditative. Innes's signature process of applying and then removing pigment with turpentine creates a quiet tension between presence and absence, between what remains and what has been erased. The resulting surface carries a ghostly, atmospheric quality, where the residue of color bleeds into raw canvas in a meditation on painting's own fragile existence.

Medium
oil on canvas

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale

February 10, 2016

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Callum Innes, Exposed Painting, Cobalt Violet

A luminous field of cobalt violet oil paint is partially dissolved and wiped away, revealing the bare linen canvas beneath in a gesture that is at once destructive and meditative. Innes's signature process of applying and then removing pigment with turpentine creates a quiet tension between presence and absence, between what remains and what has been erased. The resulting surface carries a ghostly, atmospheric quality, where the residue of color bleeds into raw canvas in a meditation on painting's own fragile existence.

Medium
oil on canvas
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Contemplative Mood, Male Artist, Cool Tones, Scottish Artist, Abstract Painting, Contemporary Artist, Abstract Expressionism, Color Field, Reductive Abstraction, Geometric Abstraction, Large Format, Process Art, Violet And Blue, Meditative Mood, Monochromatic, Violet And Purple, Minimalism, Oil on Canvas

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