Beschreibung:

Wood (Christopher, 1901-1930). Gala Flags, Treboul, 1930, pencil on pale cream wove sketchbook paper, inscribed by the artist in pencil upper right 'Perle des vagues', and with colour notes to the boat flags/pinnaces in pencil, laid down on card, 30.5 38 cm (12 x 15 ins), Redfern Gallery printed label to verso with typewritten artist's name and title, framed and glazed (47 x 53.5 cm) (Quantity: 1) Provenance: Redfern Gallery (label to verso of the backing card); Collection of Michael and Megan Dawson. Exhibited: London, The New Burlington Galleries, Christopher Wood Memorial Exhibition, 3 March - 2 April 1938, number 838 (?). Wood discovered the small fishing port of Tréboul in Brittany in the summer of 1929 and returned the following summer. During this final period in his short life, Wood producede some of his finest works, distilling all he had learnt in Paris from the works of his idols Picasso, Van Gogh and Rouseeau and everything he had developed alongside Ben and Winifred Nicholson Wood's late work has a lyrical freshness and intensity of vision, combined with what Gwen Raverat described as ‘fashionable clumsiness’.