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Structure in Oval 1947
Oil on canvas
Signed, dated, numbered 86/ 7 & inscribed verso
18 x 14 ins 46 x 35.5 cms

Exhibited: Waddington Galleries, London, 1960, no. 37
Tate St. Ives, Retrospective,1998, no. 21 illus.

Wells first employed the three sided shape that he referred to as his ‘pebble form’ during his war years on the Isles of Scilly; and in this important painting he presents it floating at the centre of the composition against an undefined background. Through his association with Gabo and Hepworth, who both explored the interior of their sculptures as much as the exterior, and his own questioning scientific mind, Wells presents ‘the pebble’ as semitransparent, revealing it’s internal structure and the forces that define and maintain its contour. This is one of a series of paintings produced at this time exploring the interior space of organic oval forms, suggestive of a search for the regenerative forces of nature found within seeds that paralleled Peter Lanyon’s Generation Series.




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