Live Auction 21050Churchill to Eden: The Collection of the Earl and Countess of Avon
DAVID JONES, C.H. (1895-1974)
Lot 50

DAVID JONES, C.H. (1895-1974)

Ex Devina Pulchritudine

Closed21 October 2022

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GBP 60,480

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DAVID JONES, C.H. (1895-1974)
Ex Devina Pulchritudine
signed and inscribed 'Dafyd j. a'i wnaeth' (lower left), dated 'MCMLVI' (lower right), signed and dated again 'David Jones/June 1956.' and extensively inscribed (on the reverse)
pencil and gouache on paper
15 1/2 x 18 3/4 in. (39.4 x 47.7 cm.)
Executed in 1956.

Specialist note

'The Latin text is from St Thomas Aquinas, 'All being is derived from the divine beauty … nothing is in the mind, unless first in the senses'. The English is from the translation of the Roman de la Rose, attributed to Chaucer. The inscription was made for Clarissa, Lady Avon, whose name appears in Greek letters at the lower edge of the work. The present work is one of a group of inscriptions made at about this date for friends, all are comparatively small." (Exhibition catalogue, David Jones, London, Tate Gallery, p. 133)