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

16 November 1937 2.30pm

細節
Grace W. Pailthorpe (1883-1971)
16 November 1937 2.30pm
signed 'G.W. PAILTHORPE' (lower left) and inscribed 'Nov.16.1937 2.30pm' (on the canvas over-lap)
oil on canvas
27 x 20 in. (68.6 x 50.8 cm.)
出版
Exhibition catalogue, British Surrealism - Fifty Years On, London, Mayor Gallery, 1986, p. 47, no. 100, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Angels of anarchy and machines for making clouds: Surrealism in Britain in the Thirties, Leeds, City Art Gallery, 1986, p. 142, no. 92, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, I Surrealisti, Milan, Palazzo Reale, 1989, p. 440, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Sluice Gates of the Mind, Leeds, Museums and Galleries, 1998, p. 17, no. 20.
展覽
London, Mayor Gallery, British Surrealism - Fifty Years On, March - April 1986, no. 100.
Leeds, City Art Gallery, Angels of anarchy and machines for making clouds: Surrealism in Britain in the Thirties, October - December 1986, no. 90.
Finland, Retretti Art Centre, Surrealismi - Surrealism, May - September 1987, not numbered.
Milan, Palazzo Reale, I Surrealisti, June - September 1989, not numbered.
Leeds, Museums and Galleries, Sluice Gates of the Mind, January - March 1998, no. 20.
注意事項
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拍品專文

Pailthorpe's paintings, on the whole, are more sedate and less tormented than Mednikoff's. Her works main feature shows the latent desire to regress into the mother's womb and/or to fulfil the impossible wish to bear a child, through themes and images of protection and feeding - which obviously imply the reverse, turning her works into stages on which a drama is enacted, haunted by various threats, like weakness, fragility, starvation, fears, the father's shadow or the mother's jealousy. Here, foetus-like cephalopods find protection in the hollow of the mother's armpit, while still clinging to the eggs they come from - birth is definitely a trauma, it says. One has to realize, too, that even with such explanation, the picture remains a challenge to the eye and to the mind. The title is indicative of the strict scientific quality of the recordings of the mind's secret life, which Pailthorpe and Mednikoff meticulously observed.

M.R.