Shadow People

Details

Carel Weight, R.A. (1908-1997)
Shadow People
oil on board
36 x 45 in. (91.5 x 114.3 cm.)
Painted in 1976.

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 17 November 1988, lot 67, where purchased by the present owner.

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, 1977, no. 404.
London, Crane Kalman Gallery, Carel Weight - A Retrospective, March - April 1998, not numbered.

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Lot Essay

Shadow People relates to another painting of the same year, Barnes Station (private collection). Both scenes show the same view; however, in the present lot, Weight has replaced the rather shadowy and ghostly figure of the young girl in Barnes Station with a young boy. The figure of the running boy here suggests an extraordinary event, and Weight situates him in a very commonplace location with the intention of exaggerating its mystery.

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