Lot 4: § KEITH MILOW, BRITISH. b. 1945. PR4NT A from 15 23/35 54/46 66, 1969 screen print with diagonal line.

§ KEITH MILOW, BRITISH. b. 1945. PR4NT A from 15 23/35 54/46 66, 1969 screen print with diagonal line.

PROVENANCE: gifted to Michael Compton by the artist. This lot is part of a single owner collection of 28 lots to include Roy Lichtenstein, Marcel Broodthaers, Terry Frost, Henry Moore, Richard Long, Victor Newsome, Keith Milow, Billy Al Bengston, Ian Stephenson, Sol LeWitt and Joe Tilson.

This work is one of a series of six prints and the full set is in the Tate's collection, London (ref: P07093). The six prints are formed from three photographic images which are used in pairs: Prints 1 and 2; 3 and 4; and 5 and 6.

"PR4NT A is a halftone negative version of the second image. The diagonal which divides the print is dusted bronze. The lower left hand half of the print is covered with various letratone grids applied to the half tone and stuck around its edge. Because the negative half tone is printed on a faintly darker field grey the image is positive." - KEITH MILOW

KEITH MILOW, b.1945: An abstract sculptor, painter and printmaker. Educated at Camberwell School of Art 1962-1967, and the Royal College of Art 1967-1968. In 1970 he received a Gregory Fellowship from Leeds University, which was followed in 1972 by a Harkness Fellowship to the USA. Awards included the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation award (1976), and the Arts Council of Great Britain major award (1979). During the 1970s Milow's work was shown by the young dealer Nigel Greenwood, along with artists such as Gilbert & George and was included in The New Art Exhibition, Hayward Gallery London 1972, organised by the Art's Council of which Compton was a Panel member. From 1980 to 2002 Milow lived in New York; in 2002 he moved to Amsterdam where he still lives and works.

h:26.50 w:39.50 in.