L'ASCENSION (MESSIAEN), 1974
Oil and watercolour on board. 41¾ x 23½in. (106 x 60cm.)
Signed with the monogram and dated ’74 lower left. Inscribed with the title on the reverse.
Provenance
Sotheby’s studio sale, 24th April 1985, lot 552.
Sotheby’s, Conduit Street, 16th January 1986, lot 15.
Sotheby's Sussex, Wealden Gallery, 2nd April 1996. Lot 1232. Illustrated in the catalogue.
Peter Nahum at the Leicester Galleries (sold).
Exhibited
Penzance, Newlyn Orion Gallery, 1976, No. 88.
Literature
Ratcliffe (2007) illus. col. front cover cover and col. pl. 82.
This is one of Colquhoun's works that explore the ‘psycho-morphological implications in music’.
L'Ascension, an early orchestral piece, was composed by Messiaen in 1933. It consists of four meditations inspired by the Scriptures.
Reference
Ratcliffe, E. Ithell Colquhoun. Mandrake, Oxford. 2007.