- Astronaut I
- Catalogue raisonné no. 25
- Artist's CR 022
- 1963
- London
- Oil and silver spray paint on canvas
- 72 x 64 inches / 183 x 163 cm
Selected Citations and Comments
This painting was virtually a single quarter from Four Events [in the Experience of an Astronaut] with a coloured lower section added to imply pulsation, either of a mechanical or an organic nature. The pulsation is conveyed in an optical idiom, using red and silver converging in a zig-zag line. As it was a ‘follow-up’ painting after Four Events, a more methodical approach was possible, and I used sprayed silver paint (from an aerosol can) for the first time.
, 'Aspen Notebook', unpublished manuscript, 1966