ALCHEMICAL FIGURE: FEET IN WATER 1940
Watercolour and gouache. 9¼ 9½in. (23.5 x 24cm.)
Inscribed with the title and the year on the reverse.
Provenance
WH Lane & Son, Penzance, 28 Feb. 2007, lot 318 as Feet with Vase and Ball.
With Red Raven Arts, London.
The image suggests a link with Scylla (1938), which also pictures a body partly in water. The vase may symbolise woman as container and the ball may represent maleness.