Gift of the artist and Judy Corbalis 2009

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto, all but first in black ballpoint and artist’s hand: upper left corner, graphite, signed and dated: “Phillip King 1963”; upper left: “Autonomous Growth / or descending columns”; centre: “PARENTHESIS AS LOGICAL AND EMPTY COMPLEATS.”; left centre with line pointing to triangle: “hardbord [sic] / colored green” and below same triangle, outlined: “PARENTHESIS”; lower right: “THE NECESSITIES OF CONSTRUCTION / THE POINT OR VA The PHYSICAL PROXIMITY OF THINGS and the affecting FORCES OF GRAVITY / as LOGICAL SEQUENCES AT WORK (-THE / EMPTY VEHICULE OF A LOGICAL FORM THAT / ALLOWS A TOTAL UNITY WHERE EXPRESSION / SEEMS PURE / + PARADOXICALLY / RELATED (EQUIVALEN[sic]) TO OTHER FACTORS).”; lower centre: “A KIND of AUTONOMY OUTSIDE THE ARTIST / BUT PARADOXICALLY STILL a human PROCESS. / SOLID-SPACE IDEA NOT as GEOMetric placables. / BUT NON GEOMETRIC COMPLETELY BOUND TO THE OBJECT IDEA / NOT INITILLIAL [sic] INVOLMENT [sic] WITH EMPTY FORMS ENDING UP WITH / A SALAD OF EMPTY SYMBOLS plus EXPRESSIVE RELATIONS / BUT AN EXPRESSIVE [the last word written above “EMPTY TOTAL” which have been crossed out] FORM ELSEWHERE SEEMINGLY EMPTY PARTS GIVE A PARADOXICALLY / EMPTY + AT THE SAME TIME AS LOADED IMAGE” and the last four lines summed up in the lower right corner with “}TOT. UNITY WITH / ALL PARTS”.

Collector's mark: none.