Sea View by David Jones

This work is unusual as it is in oil rather than Jones's preferred medium of watercolour.

Details

Medium:
Oil on board
Dimensions:
48 x 58 cm
Art Fund grant:
£3,950 ( Total: £15,800)
Acquired in:
1991
Vendor:
Mercury Gallery

Jones often combined drawing and brushwork, as in the graphic treatment of the sailing ship in the foreground. Here overlapping brushstrokes of differing blues suggest the rhythm and movement of the sea.

Venue details

Towner Art Gallery Devonshire Park, College Road, EASTBOURNE East Sussex BN21 4JJ 01323 434670 www.townereastbourne.org.uk

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