Bryan Wynter (British 1915-1975) §
River Daemon, 1960
£13,860
Auction: 27 April 2023 from 18:00 BST
Description
signed, titled and dated (verso)
oil on canvas
Dimensions
142cm x 112cm (56in x 44 1/4in)
Provenance
Provenance
with Galerie Charles Lienhard, Zurich
Waddington Galleries, London, where acquired by the present owner circa the 1980s
Exhibited
Galerie Charles Lienhard, Zurich, Bryan Wynter, January 1962, cat. no.10, illustrated p.16
Rekjavik, Iceland, The British Council, Exhibition of Contemporary British Paintings, 1963: touring to Canada, Denmark, Yugoslavia (Belgrade, Skopje, Zagreb), Egypt (Cairo, Alexandria) and Gibraltar
Footnote
My paintings are non-representational but linked to the products of nature in as much as they are developed according to laws within themselves and are a static record of the processes that have brought them about.
A stream finds its way over rocks. The force of the stream, and the quality of the rocks determine the stream’s bed. This in turn modifies the course of the stream, channelling out new sluices and hollows. The stream erodes the rock, the rock deflects the stream, until, at some high point the stream bursts its banks and falls into a ravine. The dry stream bed, carved and hollowed, remains. Its form contains its history. There are no rocks or streams in my paintings but a comparable process of dynamic versus static elements has attended their development and brough about their final form.’
Bryan Wynter (quoted in Michael Bird, Bryan Wynter, Lund Humphries, Farnham & London, 2010, p.140)