RAILS, 1936
Oil on board. 18 x 15in. (45.5 x 37.5cm.)
Signed and dated 36. Inscribed with the title on the reverse.
Provenance
Sotheby’s studio sale, London, 24th April 1985, lot 482. Illustrated in the catalogue.
The Pruskin Gallery.
Exhibited
London, Mayor Gallery, 1939, No. 8.
Harrogate, Harrogate Art Gallery, 1941, No 23.
London, Leva Gallery, 1974, No. 6.
Penzance, Newlyn Orion Gallery, 1976, No. 6.
London, Parkin Gallery, 1977, No. 13.
London, Blond Fine Art, 1985, No. 37.
According to the Parkin Gallery catalogue, the work was exhibited at the Hamet Gallery exhibition, 1971. If so, it was ex catalogue.
This work, together with Corner (1937), suggests a brief flirtation with cubism, given their transparent overlapping planes, spatial ambiguities and, in the case of Corner, a false wood-grain effect.