Lot 83
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Grace W. Pailthorpe (1883-1971)
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Grace W. Pailthorpe (1883-1971)

No 4 1938 Abstract Composition 17 May 1938, no.6. Folio No.9

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Grace W. Pailthorpe (1883-1971)
No 4 1938 Abstract Composition 17 May 1938, no.6. Folio No.9
inscribed, dated and numbered 'Folio 9/May 17, 1938, no.6/G1918 Abstract/Composition' (on the reverse)
watercolour
11 x 15 in. (28.5 x 38 cm.)
Exhibited
Leeds, Museums and Galleries, Sluice Gates of the Mind, January - March 1998, ex-catalogue.
Aldeburgh, Peter Pears Gallery, Festival Exhibition, June 2006, no.20.
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Lot Essay

One should not be mistaken by the word 'abstract'. In Pailthorpe's own vision of, and work upon, the mind, it implies a composition spontaneously and directly derived from the mind, the dream or the pure imagination, with, apparently, no link with any identifiable concrete elements. But we know, as she did, that it is not abstract from an art historical point of view.

M.R.

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