HANLY, Pat;
Showgirl and Gentlemen
1961
Oil on canvas
1500 x 1000mm
This work was painted while Pat Hanly was in Florence on a British Arts Council scholarship and Italian government scholarship. The figures—freely distorted in scale, colour, and shape—clearly declare his debt to Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, and especially Francis Bacon.
Inscriptions
Hanly 61 [l.r.]Exhibition History
Young Contemporaries, RBA Galleries, London, 1962
First solo exhibition, Comedy Gallery, London, 1961
Illustrated
Gregory O’Brien (ed.), Hanly (Tāmaki Makaurau: Ron Sang Publications, 2012), 43.
Provenance
1985–
Challenge Collection (later Fletcher Trust Collection), purchased from Webb’s, Tāmaki Makaurau, 24 July 1985, lot 189
1960s?
Collection of Mr and Mrs Otto Groen, Tāmaki Makaurau