Artist: Alan Davie (Scottish, 1920–2014)
Artwork: Verb Endings
Year: 2011
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Verb Endings is a richly layered late work by Alan Davie, bringing together the bold colour, recurring symbols and instinctive mark-making that defined his unmistakable visual language.
The composition is densely populated with spirals, checkerboard patterns, geometric structures, numbers, fragmented words and enigmatic signs. These elements overlap and interlock across the canvas, creating a remarkable sense of movement and visual rhythm.
Language itself becomes part of the imagery. References to verb endings and fragments of text sit alongside Davie’s abstract symbols, blurring the boundaries between writing, drawing and painting. The result is a work that feels almost like an invented system of communication — energetic, mysterious and deliberately open to interpretation.
Created in 2011, Verb Endings demonstrates the extraordinary vitality Davie maintained throughout his later career and his continued fascination with symbolism, language and spontaneous image-making.
Price: POA
Please contact the gallery for further information, condition details or to arrange a viewing.
Artist: Alan Davie (Scottish, 1920–2014)
Artwork: Verb Endings
Year: 2011
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Verb Endings is a richly layered late work by Alan Davie, bringing together the bold colour, recurring symbols and instinctive mark-making that defined his unmistakable visual language.
The composition is densely populated with spirals, checkerboard patterns, geometric structures, numbers, fragmented words and enigmatic signs. These elements overlap and interlock across the canvas, creating a remarkable sense of movement and visual rhythm.
Language itself becomes part of the imagery. References to verb endings and fragments of text sit alongside Davie’s abstract symbols, blurring the boundaries between writing, drawing and painting. The result is a work that feels almost like an invented system of communication — energetic, mysterious and deliberately open to interpretation.
Created in 2011, Verb Endings demonstrates the extraordinary vitality Davie maintained throughout his later career and his continued fascination with symbolism, language and spontaneous image-making.
Price: POA
Please contact the gallery for further information, condition details or to arrange a viewing.
