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THEO MENDEZ (1934-1997) The Land signed, inscribed and dated 'Theo Mendez. 1959/The Land' (lower right) oil on board 47 1/2 x 47 1/2 in. (120.7 x 120.7 cm.) Provenance: The artist's estate. Exhibited: London, Whitfield Fine Art, Theodore Mendez: The late 1950s & early 1960s, February 2010. Contemporary of Gillian Ayres, Terry Frost and Howard Hodgkin and Euan Uglow, Mendez studied at Camberwell School of Art. The Land was painted a few years after a successful solo show at the Redfern Gallery and a show of the artist's textile designs in the V&A. 'The works are sometimes symbolic of a moment in time - an event witnessed felt or experienced. Accretions of the experience of painting itself the physical pleasures of spreading colour - flowing- dense- solid-transparent-contrast- the surface of the support..' Theo Mendez in a letter to Ron King, September 1990