Pencil on cream wove tracing paper, 1971. 328x326 mm; 12 7/8x12 7/8 inches. Signed, titled and dated in pencil, on the back mat.
Provenance: Gifted by the artist to the current owner, private collection, New York, 1971.
Cottingham's (born 1935) technique for painting large-scale representations of the typography found on neon signs and building facades involves first taking a photograph of the composition, then transposing it onto transparent or gridded paper in pencil. The pencil drawing is projected onto a larger canvas. This pencil preparatory drawing was used in the creation of the same-titled oil on canvas, sold Sotheby's, New York, May 17, 2019, lot 251.
