Maurice Cockrill Divided 84 London Gallery RA Painting Postcard

RA* This is a beautiful undated but modern published official postcard from Londons Royal Academy Of Arts for this great 1999 painting by Maurice Cockrill called Divided with artist details, dates, dimensions etc & Royal Academy Of Arts logo on reverse being the official souvenir from when exhibited unused and mint. 

Maurice Cockrills Divided series (1999-2000) runs to eighty-four paintings on a variety of scales, making it the most extensive series he has ever made. some of which were shown in 2000 in exhibitions at Galerie Vidal-Saint Phalle, Paris and Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf. Each painting in the series is a two-part composition opposing two linear forms: a straight-edged form extending to the edges of the canvas, and a more organic and self-contained form (these can be interpreted as standing for various oppositions between male and female, geometry and organic form etc).. Precedents for the paintings include Jackson Pollocks Portrait and a Dream (1953) and Morris Louis 'Unfurled paintings'. The interval between the two fields is also significantthe artist thought of them as the equivalent of passages of silence in music, or the gaps between the stanzas of a poem.
After Cockrills election as a Member in 1999 the painting was accepted as his Diploma Work in 2000, the same year that the work was shown in the Summer Exhibition.