God has Flown from the World

Cecil Collins (1908 - 1989)

John Creasey Museum

1930

This work shows the importance that text was beginning to play in Collins' work. There is a lengthy inscription which forms a desperate cry which both explains and describes the action depicted in the image. The text includes quotations from Valois, St. Matthew's Gospel and Pascal. It begins, 'God has flown from this world, Ho! ho! ho! What a flight! you cannot dissociate [sic] war and disease from the universal reprobate - God (Antoni Valois) ...'

• Medium: pen, brush, black & brown ink on paper
• Dimensions: 48.2 x 67cm
• Art Fund Grant: £2500 ( Total: £7,000)
• ArtFunded in: 2005
• Vendor: James Hyman Fine Art Ltd

Provenance

Anthony d'Offay Gallery; private collection; James Hyman Fine Art Ltd.

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