ARTHUR MERRIC BLOOMFIELD BOYD (1920-1999)

Name: Figure Wading (Bride walking in a Creek)
Brand: ARTHUR MERRIC BLOOMFIELD BOYD (1920-1999)
Price: 3500.00 GBP
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Closed: 8 Dec 2016

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Figure Wading (Bride walking in a Creek)

ARTHUR MERRIC BLOOMFIELD BOYD (1920-1999)

Price Realised GBP 4,375

Closed: 8 Dec 2016

Price Realised GBP 4,375

Closed: 8 Dec 2016

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THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE MRS. HAZEL WESTBURYArthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd (1920-1999)
Figure Wading (Bride walking in a Creek)
signed 'Arthur Boyd' (lower right)
enamel on ceramic tile
20½ x 22¼in. (52.1 x 56.5cm.)

Exhibited:
London, Zwemmer Gallery, Ceramic Paintings, Arthur Boyd, 3-30 Oct. 1963, no.20.

Literature:
F. Philipp, Arthur Boyd, London, 1967, cat.12.20, pp.127 and 267 ('Collection Mr Charles Westbury, London').

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Lot Essay

In March 1963, following his move to England four years earlier, Boyd commenced work on his second series of ceramic paintings in preparation for his October 1963 exhibition at Zwemmer Galleries, London. Like his first ceramic paintings of 1949-1952, these works re-interpreted the iconography and motifs of earlier paintings as well as those produced in the intervening years; the Bride Series (1957-1959), and the Mythological Paintings (1960-62).

Philipp notes that '[Boyd's] turn towards a medium which has had little appeal for contemporary painters, a medium essentially intimate and delicate, is not fortuitous: one need only look at some of the ceramic paintings of 1963 such as (cat. 12.20) or the (cat. 12.36) to become aware of the pastel-like character of the colour, the chalky and fattish sensation of the pigment. In the handling of both media a 'filler' is used; in both, forms and ground appear suffused with light; in both the rhythm of application is more even and decorative than the turbulent movement of the brush in the 1960-62 paintings.' (F. Philipp, , London, 1967, p.127)