

Colour Chart 02 06.01.11
2011
A bold minimalist composition featuring a vibrant orange organic form suspended above a solid black rectangle on a light gray ground. Part of David Batchelor's renowned Colour Chart series, this work exemplifies his exploration of color, form, and industrial materials. The piece demonstrates Batchelor's distinctive approach to abstraction through the use of saturated hues and geometric simplicity. Executed in gloss and matt paint on Dibond, the work balances spontaneity with precision.
- Medium
- Gloss and matt paint on Dibond
- Dimensions
- Signed
- Yes
- Condition
- Excellent
- Provenance
- Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
- Purchase Price
- £18,000
- Acquired
- 10 May 2019
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Ellsworth Kelly
American · b. 1923

Kelly similarly isolated bold saturated color forms against neutral or contrasting grounds using hard edge precision on industrial supports, creating the same tension between organic shape and geometric simplicity seen in this orange form floating above the black rectangle.

Gary Hume
British · b. 1962

Hume works with gloss household paint on aluminum panels to create bold flat color forms, sharing Batchelor's use of industrial materials and the deliberate contrast between glossy and matte surfaces to give saturated hues a physical presence.

Peter Halley
American · b. 1953

Halley uses highly saturated Day Glo and Roll a Tex paint to create geometric cell forms against contrasting grounds, sharing Batchelor's interest in industrial color, minimalist composition, and the cultural resonance of bold chromatic relationships on flat surfaces.
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