Modern British Art, Contemporary British Art at Jonathan Clark Fine Art
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Pageant 1947-8
Oil on board
Signed, numbered 85/ 8 & inscribed verso
9 x 11 3/4 ins 23 x 30 cms
Exhibited:
Lefevre Gallery, London, 1946, no. 41
Crypt Group, St Ives, 1946, no. 47
Newlyn Orion Gallery, Penzance, 1985
This painting is a reworking of the earlier painting, Nuclear Dance
dated 1945. From the backboard it would appear that Nuclear
Dance was originally the other way up so that the composition read
with a straight horizon line towards the lower quarter of the board.
Typical keel like forms and thrusting chevrons topped with balancing
triangles, when read in this way, are suggestive of a musical notation
almost gently rocking across the composition. Pageant, created over
the top of Nuclear Dance three years later, inverts the image and
stacks the forms on a series of points topped with acute angled
shapes akin to flags or pennants, that create a more staccato
rhythm.
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