John Wells (1907-2000)
Untitled 1944 by John Wells ●

John Wells

Untitled 1944
Oil on board
6 x 8 ins (15.2 x 20.3 cms)

Signed & dated 1944 verso

Artist's Studio Label

Archive number 87/26


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Provenance:

Private Collection, Cornwall


This painting references 'Landscape Isles of Scilly 1944', illustrated in John Wells by Matthew Rowe, Tate Gallery Publishing, 1998, pg. 24


Almost certainly painted whilst Wells was working as a doctor on the Isles of Scilly Untitled 1944 displays loose organic forms which reflect his pre-war combination of traditional landscape and surrealist elements.


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