Adam's The Deborah Brown Collection 1st October 2024

47 Throughout the 1950s, Deborah Brown’sworkbecame increasingly ab- stracted, partly due to the experience of painting stage sets and designs for Mary O’Malley at the Lyric Theatre, until in 1958 she began to make her first gestural non-representational paintings. Although keenly engaged with American and European con- temporaries, such as Pollock, Rothko and de Stael, she quickly began to ex- plore three-dimensionality, breaking through the canvas surface and add- ing everyday materials in a manner that foreshadowed the emergence of the Arte Povera movement later in the decade. From the mid-1960s, Brown used fibreglass in a sculptural manner on canvas or board and even- tually began to make independent three-dimensional fibreglass works. 53 WILLIAM SCOTT CBE RA (1913 - 1989) Still Life, 1957 Gouache on paper, 51 x 74cm Signed lower right € 15,000 - 20,000