ANGEL WITH A GOLD COLLAR, 1980
Collage of oil and corrugated cardboard. 29½ x 41¼in. (76 x 106cm.)
Signed with the monogram lower left and dated ’80
Inscribed on the reverse with the artist’s name, the title, date and with the Paul label.
Provenance
National Trust bequest.
Literature
Reproduced in b/w with the artist standing next to it in the artist’s obituary, published in The Cornishman, Thursday April 14th 1988.
This geometric angel is composed of the squares and rectangles which Colquhoun frequently employed to depict spiritual subjects (see, for example, Crucifixion, c.1953). In the present case the forms are constructed from painted corrugated cardboard. An ovoid at the centre of the ‘chest’ suggests both a beating heart and the egg from which life emerges. The eyes are made from disposable wooden forks.