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17
Village 1948
Oil & pencil on canvas laid on board
Signed, dated, numbered 87/ 17, studio stamped & inscribed verso
11 x 15 1/4 ins 27.5 x 38.5 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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