Provenance:

Purchased from Petar James Gallery, Auckland 1978

Fletcher Trust Collection

Untitled No. 2 marks a return to single frame painting on canvas at the time the artist was involved with his Construction works. This is nothing unusual for Thornley who often indulged in what he calls side by side production as a means of resolving or extending a debate between rival aesthetic methods. Thus Untitled No. 2 shares some of the qualities of confinement and concreteness of the Constructions while also alluding back to the more purely painterly work of an earlier period.