Live Auction 552920th Century British Art
Christie’s roundel
Lot 43

Cecil Collins (1908-1989)

Two Fools

Closed31 March 2010

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GBP 5,000

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Cecil Collins (1908-1989)
Two Fools
signed and dated 'Cecil Collins 1942' (lower left)
pencil, watercolour and ink
10¾ x 8¾ in. (27.4 x 22.2 cm.)

Tom Hopkinson, C.B.E. Tom Hopkinson was the editor of Picture Post and Liliput Magazines.

Specialist note

Collins' images of The Fool are amongst the most important of his work - The Fool symbolising, for him, purity of consciousness. His best known work, The Sleeping Fool (1943, Tate Gallery, London) is part of this series. 'The deep and passionate feelings that underlie his portrayal of the Fool were expressed in an essay, The Vision of the Fool, written between 1942 and 1945 and published in 1947' (see W. Anderson, Cecil Collins, London, 1988, p. 57).