PERMUTATION (III), 1969
Collage. 10¼ x 7¾in. (27 x 20cm.)
Signed with the monogram and dated lower right.
Provenance
David Lay, Penzance, 14th October 2003, lot 306
Private collection.
David Lay, Penzance, 22 May 2008, lot 149.
With RedRavenArts, London.
Exhibited
Bristol, Bristol Arts Centre, 1970, No. 60.
Newlyn, Newlyn Art Gallery, 1971, No. 28.
Exeter, City of Exeter Art Gallery, 1972, No. 45.
On a white ground, Colquhoun has drawn a grid of 192 squares with biro and straight edge, each cell thus formed containing a collaged disc of coloured paper. The cells are arranged in a matrix of 16 rows and 12 columns. The discs come in six colours (red; lime green; white; lemon yellow, blue and gold) and there are two examples of each in every row of 12 cells, one in the first six cells and one in cells 7-12. The ordering of the colours is always different, both within rows and between rows. There is no obvious pattern, progression or sequence that governs the changing order of the colours.
See note to Permutation (I), 1969.