Window near St Ives

Details

Patrick Heron (1920-1999)
Window near St Ives
signed and dated 'Patrick Heron/46' (lower left) and inscribed 'WINDOW NEAR ST IVES' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2 cm.)

Provenance

with Redfern Gallery, London, 1947.

Literature

M. Gooding, Patrick Heron, London, 1994, p. 54, illustrated.

Exhibited

Chichester, Festival Exhibition, The Tudor Rooms of the Bishop's Palace, Kindred Spirits, Leading groups of British painters in the 19th and 20th Centuries, July 1993, no. 29.

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Lot Essay

Painted in 1946, Window near St Ives depicts a collection of familiar domestic objects arranged in front of the cottage window overlooking the sea at No. 3, St Andrew's Street in St Ives, which Heron rented for a few months every year between 1947 and 1954. In these still life paintings of this period there are a number of recurring motifs, including items of Leach pottery. Heron commented in 1984 that, 'the feeling of a sort of marriage of indoor and outdoor space through the aperture of the window frame, itself roughly rectilinear and parallel to the picture surface, was really the main theme of all my paintings - or nearly all - between 1945 and 1955' (quoted in V. Knight, exhibition catalogue, Patrick Heron, London, Barbican Art Gallery, 1985, p. 8).

See also note to lot 280.

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