Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004)
Lot 307

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004)

Atlantic Squall No 2

Closed10 October 2012

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GBP 3,250

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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004)
Atlantic Squall No 2
signed and dated 'W. Barns-Graham 1980' (lower right on the mount) signed again, inscribed and dated again '"atlantic squall (no 2)"'/1980/W Barns Graham' (on the artist's label attached to the backboard)
ink and gouache on card
7¾ x 10¾ in. (19.7 x 27.3 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 28 November 2006, lot 148.

Specialist note

In the 1970s and early 1980s Barns-Graham executed a series of wave drawings in which she explored the rhythmic movement of the sea and its naturally occurring formations as witnessed from her Porthmeor beach studio.

'Her ability to render with an economy of line the complexities of natural form is no better demonstrated than in the series of drawings that took as their starting point the endless movement of the sea ...'(see L. Green, W. Barns-Graham: A Studio Life, Aldershot, 2001, p. 213).