An oil on canvas composition painted during Cecil Collins’s Dartington years, depicting a landscape scene with carefully placed symbolic elements, including an empty chair, a tree, a bird and a solitary figure. The work reflects Collins’s contemplative and visionary approach to painting, where everyday forms are arranged with symbolic intent.
Cecil Collins (1908–1989) was a British painter associated with visionary and Neo-Romantic painting. Trained at the Royal College of Art, he developed a highly individual practice informed by mysticism, symbolism and literature, producing works that occupy a distinctive place within Modern British art.
Origin: British
Period/Style: Modern British / Neo-Romantic
Date: 1943
Material: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 38.5cm height × 44.5cm width
Signed and dated to the front; further signed, titled and dated to reverse.
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An oil on canvas composition painted during Cecil Collins’s Dartington years, depicting a landscape scene with carefully placed symbolic elements, including an empty chair, a tree, a bird and a solitary figure. The work reflects Collins’s contemplative and visionary approach to painting, where everyday forms are arranged with symbolic intent.
Cecil Collins (1908–1989) was a British painter associated with visionary and Neo-Romantic painting. Trained at the Royal College of Art, he developed a highly individual practice informed by mysticism, symbolism and literature, producing works that occupy a distinctive place within Modern British art.
Origin: British
Period/Style: Modern British / Neo-Romantic
Date: 1943
Material: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 38.5cm height × 44.5cm width
Signed and dated to the front; further signed, titled and dated to reverse.
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