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Humphrey Jennings (1907-1950)
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Humphrey Jennings (1907-1950)

Horse's Head

Details
Humphrey Jennings (1907-1950)
Horse's Head
oil on canvas
30 x 24 in. (76.2 x 61 cm.)
Painted circa 1937-1940.
Provenance
with Mayor Gallery, London.
Literature
M. Remy, Surrealism in Britain, Hants, 1999, p. 191, pl. 92, illustrated.
K. Jackson, Humphrey Jennings, London, 2004, centre pages, illustrated.
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Lot Essay

'In about 1936, the horse started to fascinate Jennings, conciding with his desire to retrieve the machine from a purely materialist conception. In Horse's Head, the blending of the mechanical and the animal through the very angular, almost vorticistic features of the head ... ' (M.Remy, Surrealism in Britain, Hants, 1999, p. 189)

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