Vault

Like Sweet's other canvas, Red, Yellow, Blue, also in the collection, this work seeks to explore and express some of the elements of abstract painting. It is, however, less rigidly geometrical and the slashes of colour echo the freer expressionism of the 1950s and '60s, and of artists like Peter Lanyon (1918-64) and Terry Frost (b.1695) whose work is also represented in the Ferens collection.