MK 17 October '62

© estate of Terry Frost. All rights reserved, DACS 2024. Image credit: British Council Collection

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In the catalogue Six Decades (Royal Academy of Arts, London 2000), Frost described this work as 'a snorter, I am proud of that. This was a deliberate effort on my part to find out for myself what was going on. I think it was the critic of the Daily Mail who first saw road traffic signs in my painting. You used to see a lot of them in Banbury (near where the artist was living at the time), because lots of people go through it on their way somewhere else. I thought, with this criticism, why don't I do all the signs I have seen on one canvas? So you have everything on there I have ever done.'

British Council Collection

London

Title

MK 17 October '62

Date

1962

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 183 x W 183 cm

Accession number

P750

Acquisition method

purchased from Waddington Galleries, 1963

Work type

Painting

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British Council Collection

British Council, 1 Redman Place, London, Greater London E20 1JQ England

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