God has Flown from the World
Artist: Cecil Collins (1908 - 1989)
Location: John Creasey Museum
Date: 1930
Materials: pen, brush, black & brown ink on paper
Dimensions: 48.2 x 67cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £2,500 (Total: £7,000)
Vendor: James Hyman Fine Art Ltd
Review number: 5621 (2005)
Provenance:
Anthony d'Offay Gallery; private collection; James Hyman Fine Art Ltd.
Description:
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) ...'
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