© Trustees of the David Jones Estate
Sunday Mass: In Homage to GM Hopkins, SJ. 1948
Artist: David Jones (1895 - 1974)
Location: John Creasey Museum
Date: 1948
Materials: pencil, watercolour, chalk & bodycolour on paper
Dimensions: 55.5 x 37.5cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £11,250 (Total: £23,000)
Vendor: Wolseley Fine Arts Limited
Review number: 5795 (2006)
Provenance:
Redfern Gallery; Hon Mrs Cochrane; Bonhams, 2005; Wolseley Fine Arts Limited.
Description:
This double portrait depicts two women attending Sunday Mass at Whitsun and was produced during or shortly after David Jones second illness. The artist is concerned to capture the moment of Pentecost, with the dove resting between the women's head. G M Hopkins was a Jesuit Priest and a talented writer and poet. It is clear that Jones idenitified with the priest in a very personal way and this work possesses and encapsulates Hopkins beliefs and philosophy.
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