Peter Midgley (né Peter Fleischmann, 1921 Berlin, Germany – 1991 London, England)
Summer Heat Sunset in Yugoslavia, 1977
Silk-screen print
87.6 x 117.4 cm
Private Collection
© The Estate of Peter Midgley
Midgley's screen print captures the essence of a scorching summer's evening at sunset in Yugoslavia through a succession of melting stripes of colour stretching in bands across the horizon. The process of screenprinting is thought to have originated over a thousand years ago in China but was introduced to the West in the late eighteenth century, and then popularised by Andy Warhol in the mid-twentieth century. Midgley masters this highly skilled process to make an exploration into line and colour.
