JOHN WELLS
DISC AND CIRCLE
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November 17, 04:09 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
JOHN WELLS
1907 - 2000
DISC AND CIRCLE
signed John Wells, titled, dated 1945 and inscribed (on the reverse)
oil on board on the Artist's backboard
unframed: 17.5 by 40cm.; 7 by 16in.
framed: 23.5 by 45cm.; 9¾ by 17¾in.
Executed in 1945.
The Artist
Wills Lane Gallery, St Ives
Private Collection, from whom acquired by the present owner
St Ives, Tate St Ives, John Wells: The Fragile Cell, 2 May - 1 November 1998, no. 9, illustrated in the catalogue p. 26 (lent by the Artist)
'So all around the moving air and the sea’s blue light, with points of a diamond, and the gorse incandescent beyond dark trees – countless rocks ragged or round of every colour – birds resting or flying, and the sense of a multitude of creatures living out of their minute lives …. All of this is just part of one’s life, and I want desperately to express it – not just what I see but what I feel about it and beyond it. If I paint what I see the result is deplorable. But how can one paint the warmth of the sun, the sound of the sea or the journey of a beetle across a rock or thoughts of one’s whence and whither?' (John Wells, in a letter to Sven Berlin, 1945)
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