(born in Southampton in 1937)
Blue Bosom (or Chest), 1964 – 65, paint, mixed media, rough canvas, lace, fiberglass on board, 50 x 36 x 13 cm

Provenance:
Richard Feigen Gallery, New York/ Chicago (labels on the reverse)
Feigen Palmer Gallery, LA (label on the reverse)
Point Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Rom  - acquired 1983/4 from the above by the father of the present owner

“I realized with the language I’d taken from adult comic books and advertisements I’d created a kind of vocabulary about the figure which was very stylised. I was compelled to make the figures as tangible, grabbable, and three dimensional as possible,” Allen Jones.

Allen Jones was one of the hot young British Pop artists in the early 1960s alongside the likes of David Hockney and RB Kitaj. He is a widely known, divisive figure in the UK art scene for his controversial fetishistic sculptures of women which have lent fuel to a heated cultural debate. He has explored these issues for decades, and they are still incredibly topical, making his art more relevant than ever.
The piece presented here was acquired at Richard Feigen Gallery in New York, where Jones’s historic show in 1970 was held and is particularly iconic of his work, fully embodying his aesthetic research.
Allen Jones