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Composition, 1930 Composition, 1930

Composition, 1930

John Selby-Bigge

Art Funded
2005
Dimensions
49.6 x 74.6 cm
Art Fund grant
£1,700 (Total: £5,000)
Vendor
Mayor Gallery
Selby-Bigge's interest lay in the abstract qualities of machinery.

He made a number of unreal, skeletal ships. He wrote of his work, that form would 'appear solid within space and as such should not create their effect by giving an illusion of depth but having an identity, an independent life of their own'. This work was purchased with additional funding from the David and Liza Brown Bequest Fund through the Art Fund.

Provenance

Estate of the artist; Mayor Gallery, London; Patrick Dawnay; Michael Dawnay; Mayor Gallery, London.

Oil on board

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Image credit

1 . Composition, 1930

© The artist's estate

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