A VISITATION II, 1945
Oil on board. 24 x 24in (61 x 61cm.)
Signed, inscribed and dated on the reverse.
Provenance
Sotheby’s, studio sale, London, 24th April 1985, lot 541, as 1949.
Exhibited
London, Mayor Gallery, 1947, (paintings) No. 7, illustrated in the catalogue.
Newlyn, Newlyn Art Gallery, 1961, No. 19.
Comparing this work with Visitation I shows that they are clearly part and counterpart. Apart from being in reverse, the main difference is that the present work has been given a setting of featureless walls. This gives it a human scale rather than the cosmic scale of Visitation I that gives it such power.