SONG OF THE EARTH, 1980
Enamel on board. 26 x 48in. (66 x 122cm.)
Signed with the monogram and dated 1980. Inscribed with the title on the reverse.
Provenance
Sotheby’s studio sale, 24th April 1985, lot 534.
Sotheby’s, Conduit Street, 16th January 1986, lot 7.
The title of this large painting may simply be a poetic phrase, or it may refer to the ‘song-symphony’ of the same name by Gustaf Mahler, composed during 1908-09 but not performed until 1911, after his death. If this suggestion is the case, this is another of the works that explore the ‘Psycho-morphological implications in music’.