Modern British Art, Contemporary British Art at Jonathan Clark Fine Art
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Untitled c.1951
Oil on canvas laid on board
Signed, numbered 90/ 16, studio stamped & inscribed verso
20 x 16 ins 51 x 40.5 cms
This work is drawn from a key series of paintings in which Wells
explored cliff faces and flight forms. The most famous of which
Aspiring Forms1950 in the Tate collection, is the first in the series
of upright compositions inspired by the graceful flight of birds
which he observed during his long cliff top walks. The enlarged
scale and the softened geometry evident in this work reveal a
renewed confidence and ambition at this time. The heavily scraped
back paint surface and pale washes of muted colour add to this
strong evocation of atmospheric movement. The vertical thrust of
the angular forms lends the composition an anthropomorphic
aspect with the suggestion of a figure standing to the left.
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