ROCKY ISLAND, 1969
Oil on board. 27½ x 42in. (70 x 107cm.)
Signed with the monogram and dated ’69. Also signed, inscribed with title and dated 1969 on the backboard.
Provenance:
Sotheby’s studio sale, 24th April 1985, lot 544.
With the Pruskin Gallery in 1985.
Sotheby's, London, 7th March 1990. Lot 386. Illustrated in b/w in the catalogue.
Christie’s South Kensington, 14th October 2004. Lot 311.
Christie’s South Kensington, 3rd March 2005. Lot 175.
Exhibited:
West Berlin, 1969 No. 87.
Berlin, Kunstamt Wilmersdorf, 1969, No. 25, as Felseninsel.
Newlyn, (Autumn), 1971 No.51 [entitled Rock Island].
Exeter, City of Exeter Art Gallery, 1972, No. 31.
London, Blond Fine Art, 1985, No. 49, as oil on board, 31½ x 46in. (80 x 116cm.)
A depiction of a stone circle. The image of the stone circle is exactly the same, except in reverse, of the landward stone circle depicted in La Cathedrale Engloutie (1952). If the images are identical in size, this might suggest that the works are decalcomania part and counterpart, even though the works are a number of years apart.