Lot 35
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Felix Kelly (1916-1994)
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Felix Kelly (1916-1994)

Bleeding Plant

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Felix Kelly (1916-1994)
Bleeding Plant
signed and dated 'Felix Kelly.38' (lower right)
gouache on board
11½ x 8 in. (29.2 x 20.4 cm.)
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Lot Essay

Bleeding Plant was painted in 1938; the year when Felix Kelly moved from New Zealand to Britain. There is a clear influence of Salvador Dali and de Chirico on this work but their prompt has not managed to overpower the individual expression of Kelly's own personal fantasy.

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