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Provenance: The Artist
Gimpel Fils, London
Private Collection
James Hyman Gallery, where acquired by the present owner in June 2004

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Exhibited: Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, Alan Davie - Retrospective, 1958, cat. no.54, with tour to London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Nottingham University Art Gallery and Yorkshire, Wakefield Art Gallery;
London, Gimpel Fils, Alan Davie: Major Works of the Fifties, 1987, cat. no.13, illustrated;
Glasgow, McLellan Galleries, Alan Davie - Major Retrospective, 1992, cat. no.22;
Amstelveen, Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Alan Davie Schilderijen Paintings 1950-2000, 21st September - 25th November 2001, illustrated p.21;
London, James Hyman Gallery, The Challenge of Post-War Painting: New Paths for Modernist Art in Britain 1950-1965, 3rd June - 4th September 2004, cat. no.10, illustrated p.41.

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Literature: Alan Bowness (ed.), Alan Davie, Lund Humphries, London, 1967, illustrated pl.41, cat. no.157;
Douglas Hall and Michael Tucker, Alan Davie, Lund Humphries, London, 1992, cat. no.199.

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Notes: 'Creation of Eve is a classic example of images being as it were DRAWN OUT of the picture by rapid linear work with a black brush and very liquid paint (to facilitate very fast movement) - again worked with no preconceived forms in mind. A magical creation of a woman from "NON MATTER". Mainly Ideas and forms came intuitively out of the act of painting: driven by an intense inner urge to create without specific pre-conceived formal concept...'

Alan Davie, letter to James Hyman, 30th April 2003