Provenance
The Estate of the Artist.

Literature
Patrick ELLIOTT. Alan Davie. Works in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, National Galleries of Scotland,, Edinburgh, 2000, pl.108, ill.p.77.

Notes
Island Fantasy was made in response to a request from the Pier Gallery at Stromness in Orkney (Davie had exhibited at the Galery before and has works in its permanent collection). The print followa a gouache based on medieval maps, and the printing method was the same as that used in the making of Blue Incarnation.
A few few years earlier, Davie had flown over Orkney and been struck by the resemblance between the islands and the islands depicted in medieval maps