STAR PAINTING, 1964
Oil on foil. 17¾ x 13¾in. (45 x 35cm.).
Signed with the monogram and dated ’64. Inscribed on the reverse.
Provenance
David Lay, Penzance, 14th October 2003, as mixed media, lot 149. Illustrated in colour in the catalogue.
Private collection.
Exhibited
London, FBA Galleries, 1965, No. 146.
Berlin, Kunstamt Wilmersdorf, 1969, No. 12 as Stern-Gemälde.
Bristol, Bristol Arts Centre, 1970, No. 8.
Penzance, Newlyn Orion Gallery, 1976, No. 28.
The three spheres represent sephiroth from the Tree of Life, painted in the traditional Queen Scale colours of the Golden Dawn. The spheres, reading clockwise from the lower left, are Hod, Geburah and Chesed. The star is positioned where Netzack would ordinarily be located. Beyond these observations, the symbolism of the painting is obscure.