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Malcolm Morley, Ring of Fire, 2009

Malcolm Morley

Ring of Fire, 2009

Signed lower right

Oil and string on linen with separate oil on linen

88 x 81.5 in
223.5 x 207 cm

(MOR 22/022)

Malcolm Morley -  - Collect - Petzel Gallery

Macolm Morley (1931-2018, UK)

Over his lifetime, Morley had numerous retrospectives, hosted by institutions like the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (1983); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1983); Brooklyn Museum, New York (1984); Tate Liverpool (1991); Kunsthalle Basel (1991); Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht (1992); Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY (1992); Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris  (1993); Fundación La Caixa, Madrid (1995); Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo (1996); Hayward Gallery, London (2001); Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (2006); Yale School of Art (2012); and the Hall Art Foundation, New York (2013-14). He has participated in numerous international surveys, including Documenta 5 (1972) and Documenta 6 (1977), and was awarded the inaugural Turner Prize in 1984, the Painting Award from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1992, and the Francis J. Greenburger Award in 2015. He was inducted into both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2009) and the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2011).