Modern & Post-War British Art
Modern & Post-War British Art
JOHN WELLS
DISC AND CIRCLE
Lot Closed
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
'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)