AN ECLIPSE, 1944
Oil on panel. 26 x 15in. (66.7 x 38.4cm.)
Inscribed on the reverse with th artist's name, the title od the work, the year and with the Paull label.
Provenance
National Trust bequest.
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, 1945, no. 77.
London, Hampstead Artists’ Council, 1946, no. 101.
London, Mayor Gallery, 1947, (paintings), No. 4.
Cambridge, Heffer Gallery, 1953, no. 5.
Newlyn, Newlyn Art Gallery, 1961, No. 16.
The technique is decalcomania and the counterpart still exists.
For the alchemists, an eclipse is the visual fusion of the sun and moon, the alchemical king and queen.