Gallery Edition – The Three Colour Sensations by Arthur Herbert Church – 44×72 Interior Architectural Study

Curatorial Narrative In the midst of early 20th-century modernism, Arthur Herbert Church’s “The Three Colour Sensations” (1911) crystallized the essence of geometric abstraction, distilling the visual experience to its most fundamental elements. By divorcing colour from representation, Church orchestrated a chromatic structure that reverberates with an almost architectural quality, as if the colours themselves had become spatial entities. This reduction to primary hues – red, blue, and yellow – imbues the work with a sense of Modernist severity, underscoring the artist’s rejection of ornamental embellishments in favour of a more austere, essential language.When scaled up to 44×72 inches, “The Three Colour Sensations” assumes an imposing presence that recalibrates the spatial rhythm of its surroundings. The palette, now amplified, asserts its dominance over the environment, casting a chromatic glow that interacts with adjacent materi