CHRISTOPHER WOOD (1901-1930)

Cove, Cornwall

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CHRISTOPHER WOOD (1901-1930)
Cove, Cornwall
dated '1926' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
9 x 11 in. (22.8 x 28 cm.)
Painted in 1926.

The artist's family.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 11 November 1988, lot 396.
with Sandra Lummis Fine Art, London, where purchased by the present owner.

Christopher Wood first visited Cornwall in 1926 and from this year until his untimely death in 1930, the Cornish coast was to have a deep impact on the artist. This first trip was vital to the development and emergence of his distinctive simplistic and deliberately naïve style. Cornwall’s rocky coastline and small villages were the antithesis of cosmopolitan Paris, and greatly inspired Wood; he described in a letter to his mother, ‘the coastline is arid with huge rocks and towering black cliffs, and little coves and creeks with the greenest water you ever saw’ (Wood quoted in H. Gresty, ‘Christopher Wood, The Innocent and the Modern’ in Christopher Wood: The Last Years 1928-1930, exhibition catalogue, Newlyn, Art Gallery, 1989, p. 8). 1926 was also the year that Wood first met the artists Ben and Winifred Nicholson, with whom he formed a deep and lasting friendship, sharing their direct approach to the depiction of the landscape.

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