signed and dated ‘Cecil Collins 1942’ (lower left)
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Girl with Hand and Flower, 1942
Provenance:
with Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London
Exhibition History:
London, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, Cecil Collins, Early Drawings, 15 March – 13 April 1991 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, no. 30);
Bristol, Royal West of England Academy, Drawing On, 21 March – 7 June 2015;
Aberystwyth, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, The Human Face, 27 January – 12 March 2016;
Hastings, Jerwood Gallery, Century: 100 Modern British Artists, 23 October 2016 – 8 January 2017;
Woking, The Lightbox, John Minton and the Romantic Tradition, 28 January – 9 March 2017;
London, The Sammy Ofer Centre, London Business School, London|Forward Facing, 26 September 2017 – 18 July 2018
Literature:
Cecil Collins was associated with the Surrealist movement in Britain, as were others in the collection, for example Eileen Agar, John Craxton and John Tunnard. The face depicted here with large melancholy eyes confronts the viewer – a pictorial device he used time and again. Also typical of Collins in his rhythmic use of line and pattern as seen in the hair and the sitter’s dress.
