Callum Innes
Exposed Painting Charcoal Black on Black

Exposed Painting Charcoal Black on Black

© Callum Innes, courtesy Sean Kelly

Exposed Painting Charcoal Black on Black
Exposed Painting Charcoal Black on Black
ArtistScottish, born 1962
CultureScottish
Titles
  • Exposed Painting Charcoal Black on Black
Date2004
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsCanvas: 68 3/4 × 64 × 1 1/2 in. (174.6 × 162.6 × 3.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Peter and Linda Zweig
Object number2021.318
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 311
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Exposed Painting Charcoal Black on Black demonstrates the conceptual rigor and a delicacy of touch that Callum Innes brings to his process-based abstractions. Innes began this canvas by laying down a white primer, and then bisecting the canvas with a single broad, black band of paint. He then “unpainted” the left half of the black band, brushing on a layer of turpentine that dissolved the top coat of pigment, which then flowed down. As a result, Innes reveals the warmer charcoal-toned hues buried within the seemingly monochromatic palette, imbuing the overall composition with an inner light.



ProvenanceThe artist; [Sean Kelly Gallery, New York]; Peter and Linda Zweig, Houston, 2004; given to the MFAH, 2021.
Exhibition HistoryN.A.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed and dated on the reverse: Callum Innes 2004
Verso: Signed in black marker, top right of canvas tacking edge:CIs 04 [cursive] CALLUM INNES 2004 / CI 10804
Verso: Signed in black marker, center right of middle stretcher bar: CI 10804. CI de. [cursive]
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Catalogue raisonnéN.A.

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