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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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