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Lot Essay
'Before commencing a painting I must realise the emotional content of my subject ... whatever the subject either imaginative or otherwise, I like to comprise it not only of the visible but the invisible people or things once there' (see D. Bassett, Fix: The Art and Life of Felix Kelly, Darrow Press, 2006, p. 71).
Herbert Read endorsed Kelly's work in his introduction to a small, illustrated book of Kelly's paintings in 1946,'Felix Kelly abandons the limits of nature's topography and invents the landscapes of a dream-world. The details may still be exact--the houses, the pedestals, the urns and wrought-iron: all are actual, as such things are actual in a dream. But their arrangement is poetic ...' (H. Read, Paintings by Felix Kelly, London, 1946, p. 7).
Herbert Read endorsed Kelly's work in his introduction to a small, illustrated book of Kelly's paintings in 1946,'Felix Kelly abandons the limits of nature's topography and invents the landscapes of a dream-world. The details may still be exact--the houses, the pedestals, the urns and wrought-iron: all are actual, as such things are actual in a dream. But their arrangement is poetic ...' (H. Read, Paintings by Felix Kelly, London, 1946, p. 7).