Modern British & Irish Art Day Auction

Property from a Distinguished London Collection

John Wells

Shell Forms

Auction Closed

November 22, 01:24 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

John Wells

1907 - 2000

Shell Forms

signed John Wells, dated 1947 and indistinctly inscribed (on the backboard)

oil and pencil on carved relief

unframed: 15.5 by 19cm.; 6 by 7½in.

framed: 21.5 by 24.5cm.; 8¼ by 9½in.

Executed in 1947.

Captain de Pass

Sale, Sotheby's London, 12 July 2013, lot 179, where acquired by the present owner

St Ives, Downing's Book Shop, Barbara Hepworth, Peter Lanyon, Ben Nicholson, John Wells, July 1947

London, Waddington Galleries, John Wells, September 1960, no. 39

St Ives, Tate, John Wells: The Fragile Cell, 2 May - 1 November 1998, no. 24, illustrated p. 41

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