FROST, Terry ~ Act & Image. Works on paper through six decades. Signed and doodled by the artist.

FIRST UK PRINTING. Belgrave Gallery, London: 2000.

Square Folio; bright red cloth, spine lettered in silver; housed in the pictorial dustwrapper; text followed by numerous captioned reproduced artworks in full colour; THE BOOK fine; THE WRAPPER very near fine, with just a touch of spotting to the front flap and sunning to the spine. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. First UK edition. Presentation copy from the artist to the Arts Club, inscribed by him with 'Good luck + good fortune', followed by his signature and a large doodle, to the ffep. The Ex Libris stamp of the club can be found to both the title page and the rear pastedown. A newspaper clipping from The Times containing the artist's obituary is also loosely inserted. The wonderful introductory essay is provided by the critic, writer and art curator Mel Gooding. A catalogue of works by Terry Frost, published to celebrate the artist's eighty-fifth birthday in 2000. Born in 1915, Frost served in France, the Middle East and Greece during the Second World War, before being captured in 1941, and remaining a prisoner of war in various camps for the following years. In Bavaria, while at Stalag 383, he met the painter Adrian Heath, who encouraged him to paint, and after the war he studied at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts before establishing himself as one of the major figures in the post-war abstract movement. His first solo exhibition was in 1947, and he went on to become an assistant to Barbara Hepworth. He was knighted in 1998. Frost used a variety of media in his artworks, and the present publication showcases his pencil, ink and wash, gouache, watercolour, charcoal, crayon, collage and oil/acrylic images.

BINDING: Hardcover
CONDITION: Fine
JACKET: Near Fine