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Untitled c.1953
Oil on canvas
Studio stamp verso
9 3/4 x 16 1/4 ins 25 x 41 cms
Following the upright compositions suggestive of soaring air currents
and gliding bird flight of the preceding few years, Wells began a
series of landscape format paintings in the mid 1950s that included
Vista1955 (Exh. Tate St. Ives, 1998, no. 38) which was awarded the
Arts Critics Prize in 1957. These presented a patchwork of geometric
shapes, spread out across the composition in a manner suggestive of
an ancient field marking system in a landscape as seen from the air,
and often containing a skewed sense of perspective evoking a bird’s
eye view in motion. This work even incorporates a shaped canvas
to further disrupt the picture plane and enhance the feeling of
disorientation
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