Artist: George Boys

Title: Composition in red, black and grey - an original signed silkscreen, framed

Description: George Boys (born 1930, Johannesburg, South Africa) is one of South Africa's leading non-figurative artists. He studied at the Wits Tech Art School in Johannesburg, graduating in 1953. George Boys had his first one-man show at the Guenther Gallery in Johannesburg in 1962, and it proved to be hugely successful being the first sell-out show of abstract art in South Africa. His paintings are very well illustrated in Esme Berman's book published in 1993 'Painting in South Africa', which also contains an excellent article on Boys's work.

The present work is an original abstract silkscreen measuring about 19.2 x 27.7 inches visible paper size. It is signed by the artist in ink, and as it is not from a numbered edition it is probably an Artist's Proof. It has a South African framer's label verso, which clearly has some age to it, and we think it likely that the screenprint dates from the 1970s or early 1980s. The print is in generally good condition, save for some very pale sporadic foxing in some of the white areas of the paper. The frame is in satisfactory condition and is quite serviceable although it does have one or two scuffs to the moulding and has lost its glass at some point (possibly removed for transport)...

Price: £80

Size: 19.2 x 27.5 inches paper size

Shipping: £10 to UK Mainland. Please enquire for other delivery destinations.

Ref #: 0982