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Frank Bowling, False Start, 1970

Frank Bowling

False Start, 1970
Acrylic and spray paint on canvas
232.5 x 548 cm
91 1/2 x 215 3/4 in
Photo: Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Exhibitions

'Frank Bowling The New York Years 1966-1975', San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Solo Show; 20 May – 10 September 2023; 'Frank Bowling’s Americas', Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston; Solo Show; 22 October 2022 – 9 April 2023, reproduced in colour, dimensions as 223 x 534 cm

Literature

Whyte, Murray. ‘At the MFA, ‘Frank Bowling’s Pivotal Show at MFA’, Boston Sunday Globe, 30 October 2022, p. n6

Enwezor, Okwui. ‘Mappa Mundi: Frank Bowling’s Cognitive Abstraction’, Enwezor, Okwui (ed.). Frank Bowling: Mappa Mundi,
exh. cat., Haus der Kunst, Munich; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, 2017, pp. 16-45, reproduced on p. 27 (colour), dimensions as 223 x 5234 cm

Crippa, Elena. 'Frank Bowling: The Possibilities of Paint are Never-Ending', Crippa, Elena (ed.). Frank Bowling, exh. cat., Tate Britain, London, 2019, pp. 11-17 and reproduced on p. 14 (colour), dimensions as 223 x 534 cm

Jassan, Alejandro (ed.). Frank Bowling: Make it New, exh. cat., Alexander Gray Associates, New York, 2018, reproduced on p. 58 (colour)

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