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Callum Innes

1962

WA-00003031

PaintingContemporary

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None documented

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WikidataQ5022963

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1 cross-verified · 2 single-source

Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓
NationalityArtsy· 85%
LocationGallery Generic· 72%

Source Registry (2)

Sean-Kellyhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/callum-innes
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Phillips-Artsyhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/callum-innes
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%

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Callum Innes is a Scottish abstract painter working primarily in oil and acrylic on canvas, characterized by a rigorously reduced formal language and a methodical approach to colour and surface. His paintings often employ systematic processes, such as layering and erasure, to create austere compositions that hover between representation and pure abstraction. Based in Edinburgh, his work engages with the material properties of paint itself as a subject rather than a vehicle for external reference.

Source: Sean Kelly · Trust score: 100% · Updated 2mo ago

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Contemporary

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Tate

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Artworks (4)

Untitled No 51

2011 · Oil paint on canvas

support: 1250 x 1210 mm

Tate

Untitled No 39

2010 · Oil paint on canvas

unconfirmed: 2220 x 2200 mm

Tate

Exposed Painting Paynes Grey/Yellow Oxide/Red Oxide on White

1999 · Oil paint on canvas

2289 x 2235 x 35

Tate

Three Identified Forms 1993

1993 · Oil paint on canvas

support: 2200 x 1900 mm

Tate

Artwork sources (3)

4 published of 7 catalogued · 4 with image

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4 published4 img
+ 2 more sources · 3 catalogued, not yet published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 4)

4 entries · 1 sources

Three Identified Forms 1993
1993 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Exposed Painting Paynes Grey/Yellow Oxide/Red Oxide on White
1999 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Untitled No 51
2011 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Untitled No 39
2010 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Tate Christie's Phillips

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Cleveland Museum of Art

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Tate

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