Confluence II

Details

Bryan Wynter (1915-1975)
Confluence II
signed, inscribed and dated 'BRYAN WYNTER/"CONFLUENCE II"/1965' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
56 x 44 in. (142.2 x 111.7 in.)

Exhibited

London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, Bryan Wynter 1915-1975 Paintings, Kinetics and Works on Paper, August 1976, no. 62, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

Wynter was fascinated by water, and it emerged as a strong theme in his paintings. Chris Stephens (Bryan Wynter, St Ives Artists, London, 1999, p. 70) comments, 'Made over a ten-year period, the water-based paintings took a variety of forms and were often produced in series, suggesting perhaps an association with different natural phenomena. Some of the earliest were entitled Spate and seem to imitate the influx of a stream into a larger body of water. This was developed in a large group with the theme of Confluence in which arrangements of lines intersect in manners consistent with the behaviour of water'.

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