Alfred Wallis

Four Boats Under Sail

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Angela Verren Taunt

Alfred Wallis

1855 - 1942

Four Boats Under Sail

signed A. Wallis (upper right)

pencil and oil on cardboard

unframed: 11 by 31cm.; 4¼ by 12¼in.

framed: 23 by 43cm.; 9 by 17in.

Inscribed by Ben Nicholson For Angela July 73 (on the reverse)

We are grateful to Robert Jones, author of Alfred Walls Artist and Mariner (2021), for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.

Gifted by Ben Nicholson to Angela Verren Taunt

Ben Nicholson met Angela Verren Taunt at a Christmas party in Cambridge on 29 December 1971. Angela was a talented painter herself and had been a great admirer of Nicholson’s work. Ben invited Angela to visit his studio soon after they met, and it was clear there was an immediate connection. She shortly became his studio assistant, and the close friendship which developed between the two was of fundamental importance to the last ten years of Nicholson’s life. They also worked as collaborators on occasion. The support and creative exchange Ben received from Angela was an energizing element, which along with a return to the UK, helped him recapture a creative energy and zest for life and encouraged his artistic output during this final decade.