Atlantic Squall No 2

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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004)
Atlantic Squall No 2
signed and dated 'W. Barns-Graham 1980' (lower right on the mount) signed again, inscribed and dated again '"atlantic squall (no 2)"'/1980/W Barns Graham' (on the artist's label attached to the backboard)
ink and gouache on card
7¾ x 10¾ in. (19.7 x 27.3 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 28 November 2006, lot 148.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Lot Essay

In the 1970s and early 1980s Barns-Graham executed a series of wave drawings in which she explored the rhythmic movement of the sea and its naturally occurring formations as witnessed from her Porthmeor beach studio.

'Her ability to render with an economy of line the complexities of natural form is no better demonstrated than in the series of drawings that took as their starting point the endless movement of the sea ...'(see L. Green, W. Barns-Graham: A Studio Life, Aldershot, 2001, p. 213).

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