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Alfred Wallis and Christopher Wood: a meeting on canvas

09/2023 | 1446 | 165

Pages: 946–51

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Author:

Featherstone, Rupert (Featherstone, Rupert)

Subjects

artists:

Wallis, Alfred / Wood, Christopher

dates:

1930-1939

patrons:

Wertheim, Lucy

places:

St Ives

subjects:

British painting / Technical analysis / Attributions / Scientific analysis

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1.Reverse of Fig.2, showing signature and inscription. (© Hamilton Kerr Institute, Cambridge; photograph Chris Titmus).

Attributed works:

2. Boats at quayside, by Alfred Wallis and Christopher Wood. 1929–30. Oil, house paint and pencil on canvas, 45.8 by 53.5 cm. (Private collection; © Hamilton Kerr Institute, Cambridge; photograph Chris Titmus).

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3. Map of Fig.2, showing Alfred Wallis’s involvement assesed by optical examination. (© Hamilton Kerr Institute, Cambridge).

Attributed works:

4. Detail of Fig.2, showing Wallis’s seagulls and his changes to the buildings’ windows.

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5. X-radiograph of Fig.2, showing distribution of barium (house paint) and lead white. (© Hamilton Kerr Institute, Cambridge).

Attributed works:

7. La Ville-Close, Concarneau, Brittany, by Christopher Wood. 1929–30. Oil on millboard, 36.8 by 81.6 cm. (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Bridgeman Images).

Attributed works:

8. Detail of Fig.2, showing the new building inserted by Wallis.

Western art unattributed:

6. Concarneau. – Sortie de la Ville Close et le Quai Pénéroff. Postcard. (Private collection).

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