Vorticist composition, blue and green
Maker
(artist)
1885-1963
1885-1963
Title
Vorticist composition, blue and green
Date of Production
(circa) 1915
Medium
graphite, black ink, watercolour and bodycolour on wove paper
Dimensions
Height: 19.7 cm
Width: 25.4 cm
Width: 25.4 cm
Accession Number
D.2016.XX.20
Mode of Acquisition
Brigid Peppin, gift, 2016
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
© Estate of Helen Saunders
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Label Text
Few of Saunders’s Vorticist works are entirely non-figurative, making this drawing unusual. Against vertical panels of yellow and green emerges a form composed of overlapping diagonal planes of colour, appearing to project from the surface of the sheet.
Numerous graphite lines are visible through the watercolour. This lack of finish, as well as the work’s decorative quality, suggest that it may relate to a series of murals for London’s Restaurant de la Tour Eiffel, on which Saunders collaborated with Wyndham Lewis, the leader of the Vorticists, in 1915.
Numerous graphite lines are visible through the watercolour. This lack of finish, as well as the work’s decorative quality, suggest that it may relate to a series of murals for London’s Restaurant de la Tour Eiffel, on which Saunders collaborated with Wyndham Lewis, the leader of the Vorticists, in 1915.
Provenance
with the artist until her death in 1963; bequeathed to her sister, Ethel Saunders; bequeathed to her first cousin once removed, Helen Peppin, 1971; given to her daughter, Brigid Peppin, 1989; offered by her as a gift and part-purchase to the Samuel Courtauld Trust, 2016
Exhibition History
Drawings Gallery Display - Helen Saunders, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 14/10/2022-29/01/2023
Women in Abstraction, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 05/05/2021-23/08/2021
Blast to Freeze, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France, 24/02/2003-11/05/2003 ...More
Blast to Freeze, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany, 14/09/2002-05/01/2003
Modern Art in Britain 1910-1914, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 20/02/1997-26/05/1997
Blast, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, 18/08/1996-03/11/1996; Haus der Kunst, Munich, 15/11/1996-26/01/1997
Helen Saunders (1885-1963), Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 09/01/1996-03/03/1996; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, 16/03/1996-20/04/1996
Vorticism and its allies, Hayward Gallery, London, 27/03/1974-02/06/1974 ...Less
Women in Abstraction, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 05/05/2021-23/08/2021
Blast to Freeze, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France, 24/02/2003-11/05/2003 ...More
Blast to Freeze, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany, 14/09/2002-05/01/2003
Modern Art in Britain 1910-1914, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 20/02/1997-26/05/1997
Blast, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, 18/08/1996-03/11/1996; Haus der Kunst, Munich, 15/11/1996-26/01/1997
Helen Saunders (1885-1963), Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 09/01/1996-03/03/1996; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, 16/03/1996-20/04/1996
Vorticism and its allies, Hayward Gallery, London, 27/03/1974-02/06/1974 ...Less
Literature
Women in Abstraction, Centre-Pompidou, Paris 5 May - 23 Aug. 2021 and Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, 2 Oct. 2021 - 27 Feb. 2022
Fig. p. p. 74
Blast to Freeze, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany, 2002-03
Peppin, Brigid, and Cork, Richard, Helen Saunders (1885-1963), exh. cat., Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and Graves Art Gallery ,Sheffield, 1996
pp. 14, 46
Fig. p. p. 14
Fig. p. p. 74
Blast to Freeze, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany, 2002-03
Peppin, Brigid, and Cork, Richard, Helen Saunders (1885-1963), exh. cat., Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and Graves Art Gallery ,Sheffield, 1996
pp. 14, 46
Fig. p. p. 14
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: none.
Inscription: none.
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: none.
Collector's mark: none.
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