OIL ON A WET ROAD, 1963
Oil on canvas. 29 x 26in. (73.66 x 66cm.)
Monogrammed and dated lower right. Inscribed on the reverse.
Provenance
David Lay, Penzance, 10th June 2003, lot 501. Illustrated in colour in the catalogue.
Exhibited
Berlin, Kunstamt Wilmersdorf, 1969, No.9, as Öl auf einer Nasseu Strasse.
The picture may have been inspired by the traditional antipathy between oil and water or the visual appearance of prismatic reflections (see also Oil-and-Water-Nymph (1964).