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Painting 1976
Oil & pencil on board
Numbered 87/ 10, studio stamped & dated verso
12 x 16 ins 30.5 x 40.5 cms
The last painting in the exhibition illustrates Wells’ increasing
awareness of the development and consistency of his career.
Many of the forms used in this work, from the crescent shape in
the upper left, to the small drawn circle above it, refer back to his
war time constructivist works, whilst the coloured square within a
square to the lower right is drawn from more recently produced
work. All of this geometric visual language is combined with the
central, heavily textured area. This may be an earlier painting
reworked by the artist, a practice that dominated his late work
from the 1980s.
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