All texts copyright Richard Shillitoe
l’ancre
1939
Oil on canvas.
22 x 22in. (55.9 x 55.9cm.)
Signed and dated: ‘Colquhoun/39’.
Provenance
Sotheby’s, 10 June 1981, lot 176.
Exhibited
London, Mayor Gallery, 1939, no. 5.
Northampton, Art Gallery, 1939.
Oxford, The Ashmolean Museum, 1939, no. 20.
London, The Leicester Galleries, 1940.
Harrogate, Art Gallery, 1941, no. 22.
London, Hamet Gallery, 1971, no. 30.
London, Leva Gallery, 1974, no. 13.
Penzance, Newlyn Gallery, 1976, no. 8.
London, Parkin Gallery, 1977, no. 20.
Literature
Chadwick, 1985, p. 153.
One of the Méditerranée series.
This is an industrial artefact, supposedly an anchor, although the flukes are very strange, lying on a
disc that has both organic and inorganic elements.
The work is square. The lower corner of the anchor lies at the golden section of the vertical and
horizontal dimension and also on the diagonal that runs from lower left to upper right.