Jun 08, 2023 - Sale 2640

Sale 2640 - Lot 265

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
MALCOM MORLEY
Italian Fighter Pilot (Ace).

Watercolor on heavy wove paper, circa 2010. 425x550 mm; 16 3/4x21 inches. Signed twice in pencil, lower left and right recto.

Provenance: Private collection, Florida.

This work is related to the same-titled 2010 oil on linen, in the collection of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. The oil on linen painting was exhibited in Morley's exhibition, Rules of Engagement at Sperone Westwater, New York in 2011, as part of the artist's "Fighter Pilot (Ace)" series, inspired by World War II era illustrations and his childhood memories of a nearby London air dome.