Wednesday weariness, as encapsulated by the sleepy protagonists of this softly hued painting by the late American artist Noah Davis. In his short but impressive career—he was just 32 when he died—Davis created some four hundred paintings, collages, and sculptures “[but] the deep DNA truth of Noah was that he was first and foremost a painter”, curator Helen Molesworth has said of his moving work. “His paintings are both figurative and abstract, realistic and dreamlike; they are about blackness and the history of Western painting, drawn from photographs and from life.”
