A fine oil still life copy of an original painting by the English painter, John Christopher Woods. The artist has signed "Christopher Wood" to the lower right corner.
The painting has been presented in a gilt effect frame with swept corners with acanthus leaf details
On canvas laid to board.The frame has areas of restoration, noticeably to the lower left corner. The painting is in fine condition.
34.5 x 24cm (13.6" x 9.4")Framed Size: 44.5 x 34cm (17.5" x 13.4")
At Liverpool University, Wood met Augustus John, who encouraged him to be a painter. The French collector Alphonse Kahn invited him to Paris in 1920. From 1921 he trained as a painter at the Académie Julian in Paris, where he met Picasso, Jean Cocteau, Georges Auric and Diaghilev. He travelled around Europe and north Africa between 1922 and 1924.
In 1926 he became a member of both the London Group and the Seven and Five Society plus meeting and befriending Ben and Winifred Nicholson. The Nicholsons' dedication to his work had a great influence and exhibited together at the Beaux Arts Gallery in April–May 1927 and subsequently painted together in Cumberland and Cornwall in 1928. Like Nicholson, Wood admired Alfred Wallis whom they met on a trip to St Ives, and whose primitivism influenced Woods' stylistic development. He painted coastal scenes, and his finest works are considered to be those painted in Brittany in 1929 and during his second trip to Brittany in 1930 when he painted fewer marine pictures and more churches.
In April 1929 Wood held a solo exhibition at Tooth's Gallery in Bond Street, London where he met Lucy Wertheim at a private view. She purchased a picture and soon became one of his biggest supporters, buying up his work. For his part Wood apparently appreciated the support, telling Wertheim at her birthday party that:
"I know that my future as a painter from now on will be bound up with your own, and I shall become great through you!"
In May 1930 he had a largely unsuccessful exhibition with Nicholson at the Georges Bernheim Gallery in Paris. In June and July he made a second sojourn to Brittany to create new work. Later in July Wertheim travelled to meet Wood in Paris, to choose the paintings for a one-man show that would be the opening exhibition at her new Wertheim Gallery in October. While discussing the exhibition over lunch the day after her arrival, Wood issued her with an ultimatum: "I want you to promise to guarantee me twelve hundred pounds a year from the time of my exhibition, one hundred pounds a month being the least I can live on. If I can't have this sum I've made up my mind to shoot myself". When she complained, he begged her forgiveness, and they went to review the paintings again. Following his death in August the show was cancelled; it was eventually staged as a memorial show at another gallery.
| SKU | py577 |
|---|---|
| Artist | after John Christopher Wood (1901–1930) |
| Date | Contemporary |
| Dimensions | 34.5 x 24cm |
| Medium | Oil |
| Style | Realism |
| Subject | Floral & Botanical |
| Item Returns | This item can be returned |
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