Carel Weight, R.A. (1908-1997)

Land of the Birds; A Dream

Details

Carel Weight, R.A. (1908-1997)
Land of the Birds; A Dream
signed 'Carel Weight' (lower left)
oil on board
50 x 38 in. (127 x 96.5 cm.)
Painted in 1987-88

Provenance

with Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London.

Literature

R.V. Weight, Carel Weight, A Haunted Imagination, London, 1994, p.122 (illustrated and on front cover).

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, 1988, no.17.

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Lot Essay

Ray Weight (loc. cit.) describes the present work: 'It is the substance of a dream, an outlandish Gothic setting with characters to match, preoccupied with their several curious concerns. The massses are immense and simplified and vigorously coloured. It is a favoured rhetoric of powerful, direct emphases sufficient to deliver the intended, physical shock'.

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