Modern British Art, Contemporary British Art at Jonathan Clark Fine Art
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Three Discs & Circle 1967
Oil & pencil on board
Signed, dated & numbered 67/ 7 & inscribed verso
14 x 18 ins 35.5 x 45.5 cms
Exhibited:
Penwith Society, 1967
Edinburgh Festival, 1968
This exquisite work represents the height of Wells’ paring down of
his visual vocabulary to the barest minimum. All extraneous colour
has been removed and we are left with the purest and most
complete of forms, devoid of visual distraction. Wells has created a
tantalising dynamic between the four circles, which plays with our
perceptions of real and imagined space, and as such can be seen as
the logical progression from his first initial spatial constructions,
created with the guidance of Nicholson and Gabo twenty five
years before.
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