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ALFRED WALLIS | Ships With Flowering Trees
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
Sold
93,750 GBP
bidding is closed
Description
- Ships With Flowering Trees
- signed twice
- oil, household paint and pencil on paper
Provenance
Margaret Mellis and Francis Davison
Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London, where acquired by the present owner, April 2003
Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London, where acquired by the present owner, April 2003
Exhibited
London, Austin/Desmond, James Dixon, Mary Jewels, Alfred Wallis, Paintings by Three Self-Taught Artists, 19th March - 30th April 2003, un-numbered exhibition, illustrated on the front cover.
Catalogue Note
We are grateful to Robert Jones for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work. '[Wallis] enjoyed talking about his paintings, speaking of them not as paintings but as events and experiences.'
(Ben Nicholson, 'Alfred Wallis', Horizon, 7, no.37, 1943, p.52 quoted in Jovan Nicholson, Art and Life, exh. cat. Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2013, p.120).
(Ben Nicholson, 'Alfred Wallis', Horizon, 7, no.37, 1943, p.52 quoted in Jovan Nicholson, Art and Life, exh. cat. Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2013, p.120).