£375
MODERN MADE: Modern & Post-War Art, Design & Studio Ceramics | 677
Auction: 29 April 2022 at 11:00 BST
crayon on cream paper and crayon on cream paper (double-sided), both unframed
Provenance:
Acquired from the artist by Jake Nicholson and thence by descent to the present owner.
Study for 'Serpent Votaries' is related to the watercolour Serpent Votaries of 1963, on loan to Pallant House Gallery, Chichester from a private collection. Judith Collins, curator of the 1987 Tate retrospective exhibition of Winifred Nicholson’s work has explained: ‘The myths of particular places fascinated the artist. She read widely of the Celtic and early British myths of her area of Roman Britain; and also, when she began to visit Greece, of Greek myths. The continuing occupation of the land by figures from history was a belief of hers; people could slip in and out of time scales.’ (Judith Collins, Winifred Nicholson, Tate Gallery, London, 1987 p. 94).