1. The Island
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The Island, St Ives, Cornwall, undated - Oil on board
- Alfred Wallis 1855-1942
Alfred Wallis, a Cornish fisherman, turned rag-and-bone man, only began to paint in 1925, when he was 70 years old. Using ship's paint, card and board, he spent his retirement producing paintings from memory of the Cornish landscape and sea. Regarded as a talentless eccentric by local residents, Wallis was ‘discovered’ in 1928 by the artists Ben Nicholson and Christopher Wood, through whom he subsequently acquired a group of admirers and patrons.
‘The Island, St. Ives’ uses a limited colour palette to show a high viewpoint of land, sea, houses and ships, which are arranged dramatically in the small composition.
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