Julian Trevelyan, R.A.

London, Royal College of Art, The Imaginative Impulse: Julian Trevelyan 1910-1988, 27th October - 22nd November 1998, un-numbered exhibition, with exhibition catalogue published by the Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames, illustrated p.103;
London, Alexander Postan Gallery, Julian Trevelyan's Constructions and Panels 1974-75, 4th - 23rd December, un-numbered exhibition.

Philip Trevelyan, Julian Trevelyan: Picture Language, Lund Humphries, Farnham, 2013, illustrated p.226.

The wooden relief construction appears secure. There are nail heads visible on the wooden elements in keeping with the artist's techniques. There are some tiny scuffs to the edges of the grey painted wooden elements. There are some scattered light scratches and rubbing to the grey backboard. There are some spots of glue residue to the wooden elements. Subject to the above the work appears to be in very good and original condition. Ultraviolet light reveals no obvious signs of fluorescence or retouching. The work is presented in a painted wooden frame, held behind glass. Please telephone the department on +44 (0) 207 293 6424 if you have any questions regarding the present work.
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In the 1970s Trevelyan started to look back at his ideas and interests from the mid- 1930s and these wooden constructions using driftwood and shapes of crescent moons and circles relate to this period and incorporate in three dimensional form his abstract constructions of the 1930s. Philip Trevelyan comments on these works 'In one sense they were a return to the 1930s, but in another they were new and marvellous distillations of his personal language' (Philip Trevelyan, Julian Trevelyan: Picture Language, Lund Humphries, Farnham, 2013, p.226).