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- Alan Davie
- Self-Portrait with Brushes
- 1937
- GMA 4108
- Scottish Art
![Self Portrait [Opus D.11]](http://www.nationalgalleries.org/media/4/collection/GMA 4255.jpg)
- Alan Davie
- Self Portrait [Opus D.11]
- 1939
- GMA 4255
- Scottish Art
- Alan Davie
- Woman Arranging Flowers
- 1945
- GMA 4109
- Scottish Art
- Alan Davie
- The Saint
- 1948
- GMA 4110
- Scottish Art
- After the War
- Alan Davie
- Jingling Space
- Dated 1950
- GMA 3308
- Scottish Art
- Alan Davie
- Blue Triangle Enters
- 1953
- GMA 4111
- Scottish Art
![Image of the Fish God (series) [Opus D.379]](http://www.nationalgalleries.org/media/4/collection/GMA 4264.jpg)
- Alan Davie
- Image of the Fish God (series) [Opus D.379]
- 1954
- GMA 4264
- Scottish Art
- Alan Davie
- Seascape Erotic
- Dated 1955
- GMA 1084
- Scottish Art
![Woman Bewitched by the Moon No. 2 [Opus 0.175]](http://www.nationalgalleries.org/media/4/collection/GMA 3309.jpg)
- Alan Davie
- Woman Bewitched by the Moon No. 2 [Opus 0.175]
- Dated 1956
- GMA 3309
- Scottish Art
- Alan Davie
- Farmer's Wife No. 2 (Jazz Musician and Lady)
- 1957
- GMA 4112
- Scottish Art
Alan Davie (Scottish, born 1920)
Davie was born in Grangemouth, near Edinburgh and studied at Edinburgh College of Art. In 1948 he saw the work of the American Abstract Expressionists and was impressed by their intensity and freedom. Davie abandoned traditional methods of composition and subject matter and sought to free his art from premeditated decision-making. This approach owes much to the artist's interest in Zen Buddhism and there is also an analogy with jazz - Davie was a jazz saxophonist early on in his career. In the later 1950s and 1960s Davie's brushwork became more controlled and the imagery more legible. Mysterious symbols began to appear, found in sources as varied as American Indian pottery, maps, ancient rock-carvings and Aboriginal art.
