OIL-AND-WATER-NYMPH, 1964
Oil on board. 42 x 28½in. (108.0 x 73.0cm.)
Signed with an early variant of the monogram and dated lower right.
Provenance
David Lay, Penzance, 14th October 2003, as body colour, lot 518.
David Lay, Penzance, 10th February 2004, lot 19.
Private collection.
Exhibited
Newlyn, Society of Artists, 1967 No. 74.
Berlin, Kunstamt Wilmersdorf, 1969, No. 13. as Nymphe, dimensions given as 110 x 76.5cm. Illustrated in b/w in the catalogue.
Bristol, Bristol Arts Centre, 1970, No. 9.
Exeter, City of Exeter Art Gallery, 1972, No. 21.
The picture may have been inspired by the traditional antipathy between oil and water or the visual appearance of prismatic reflections (see also Oil on a Wet Road (1963).
