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Figures 1950
Pen, ink & watercolour on paper
Studio stamp & figure drawing verso
7 x 7 ins 18 x 18 cms

Wells worked as an assistant to Barbara Hepworth from 1949-51, notably on her series of monumental figurative sculptures of the period including Cosdon Head, 1949 in the Birmingham City Art Gallery Collection These works combined Hepworth’s interest in pure abstraction with her figure drawings of the preceding few years. Many of her works involved two figures presented together, either the same figure for different viewpoints or entwined in some way. Wells at this time developed an interest in incorporating heads and figures within landscape forms as symbolic of man’s interaction with nature. This rare linear study is also related to a series of etchings made at this time.




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