Autumn Trees

Description

Painting entitled 'Autumn Trees', painted in oil with impasto technique, abstract image made up of overlapping squares and rectangles in shades of grey, brown, orange and red with some yellow and one purple square, painted onto prepared linen canvas, signed at the lower right corner 'BK 64': British, by Bernat Klein, 1964

Museum reference

K.2010.94.1256

Collection

Fashion and Textiles

Object name

Painting

Production information

Klein, Bernat, 1922 - 2014, Artist
Galashiels, Selkirkshire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Date

1964

Materials

Wood, Linen, Oil paint

Physical description

Painting entitled 'Autumn Trees', in oil painted with impasto technique, abstract image made up of overlapping squares and rectangles in shades of grey, brown, orange and red with some yellow and one purple square. Painted onto prepared linen canvas. Signed at the lower right corner 'BK 64'. Canvas stretched over timber frame with timber wedge supports. Framed in timber painted grey. Back of canvas inscribed in black pen with '15' and stamped in ink ''WINTON' / Prepared by / WINDSOR & NEWTON LTD. / LONDON ENGLAND / NEA'. Frame with sticker inscribed wIth handwritten ink '94 AUTUMN TREES', second sticker inscribed with handwritten ink '73', third sticker inscribed with handwritten ink '2.9, / Bernat Klein Exh. / Hawick Museum 2005', fourth sticker printed with '403'. Handwritten note on paper in ink, stapled to frame 'BERNAT KLEIN / AUTUMN TREES 1 30X20 S1/F' and note handwritten in ink directly onto frame '(19)'.

Associations

Klein, Bernat, 1922 - 2014
Studio of Bernat Klein, Christies Auction Sale

Exhibitions

• Bernat Klein: Design in Colour (05 Nov 2022 - 23 Apr 2023)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Fashion and Style (08 Jul 2016)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Bernat Klein - Textile Designer, Artist, Colourist (15 Aug 2005 - 23 Oct 2005)
  Scott Gallery & Hawick Museum

• Design Matters ( Apr 1976 - May 1976)
  Kirkcaldy Museum and Art gallery

References

Klein, Bernat and Jackson, Lesley, 'Bernat Klein Textile Designer, Artist, Colourist', Bernat Klein Trust, 2005, p26

The Studio of Bernat Klein', Christies Auction House sale catalogue, Glasgow, November Thursday 24 November 1994, p20