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Figures in an Air-Raid Shelter
Robert Colquhoun
- Art Funded
- 2006
- Dimensions
- 25.4 x 50.2 cm
- Vendor
- Christie's
The artist uses the tight and brutal enclosure of the air raid shelter to create a setting that is both theatrical in its design and emotional complexity.
Is the figure on the left protecting the space or keeping order? The cramped discomfort is illustrated in the waking figure at the bottom.
Provenance
Mercury Gallery, London; Ewan Mundy, Glasgow; Peter Nahum Collection; Christie's, 2006.