Novato, CA
Details
- Dimensions
- 14ʺW × 1ʺD × 11ʺH
- Frame Type
- Unframed
- Art Subjects
- Geometric
- Period
- 1940s
- Country of Origin
- United Kingdom
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
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- Materials
- Cardboard
- Gouache
- Condition
- Unknown, Needs Restoration
- Color
- Mint
- Condition Notes
- The condition is good. However it is painted on paper board. The work would benefit being professionally mounted and framed. The condition is good. However it is painted on paper board. The work would benefit being professionally mounted and framed. less
- Description
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This work is attributed to Frank Avery Wilson from the late 1940’s. This is a highly educated guess as for …
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This work is attributed to Frank Avery Wilson from the late 1940’s. This is a highly educated guess as for as its origins but it is not a guarantee. The reasons for the attribution are that it is signed “Wilson” and his late 1940’s work (pictured) were painted on paper board as is this painting and both the color pallet and the shape styling is similar to verified pieces. We will continue to research but for now we are offering the work at low price.
Avray Wilson is Britain’s only Action painter.
Born on the multi-cultural island of Mauritius in 1914, Avray Wilson came to Abstraction following years of scientific research into the source of human aesthetics. Having graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in biology in 1938, Avray Wilson used his scientific knowledge to further his painting. Once he discovered that colour is not matter but energy, that an image could be alive as a living cell under a microscope, and that human art-making is a reflection of Nature’s Art Making, Avray Wilson arrived at full abstract gestural painting during the early 1950's. His explosions of colour and shapes burst in strength and liveliness, and are in their dignity and abstract grandeur challenging our predisposed understanding of what art should be.
Avray Wilson himself commented on his scientific background:
'I studied biology hoping that it would provide me with an explanation of the wonder of life. But the claim that life was no more than a molecular mechanism, led me to join the ranks of 'vitalist' biologists, who recognised that life, like beauty, was a quality, not a thing. Artists do not usually need a justification for art. The power of art is convincing enough. But my scientific background obliged me to find an explanation of nature's art, which I felt sure would provide me with the firmest justification for human art.' less
Novato, CA
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