Cobalt Wedge 1970

Peter Alexander created Cobalt Wedge, but when, where, and with what materials I couldn’t tell you – which actually makes it more interesting, don’t you think? It looks like a single, confident stroke, but I’m sure it wasn't that simple. I imagine the studio filled with half-formed ideas, canvases wrestled into submission, and then, finally, this: a luminous, tapering block of cobalt. The colour shifts from deep indigo at its base to a ghostly whisper at the top. You wonder what it would be like to be Peter at that moment. That single line, though, isn't just about colour, it's about the act of seeing. It’s a quiet, meditative experience, a sustained note in the ongoing symphony of painting. Artists talk to each other, you know, across time and space. This piece might be in conversation with Agnes Martin’s grids, or maybe even a minimalist sculpture. It's all connected. And it's all up for grabs, for you to see, feel, and interpret in your own way.