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JOHN CECIL STEPHENSON (1889-1965)
Lot 117PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION

JOHN CECIL STEPHENSON (1889-1965)

Vortex No. 2

Fermé19 October 2023

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JOHN CECIL STEPHENSON (1889-1965)
Vortex No. 2
signed, inscribed and dated 'JC STEPHENSON 1939/"VORTEX" No. 2' (on the reverse), inscribed again '6 Mall Studios Hampstead NW3 Parkhill Road' (on the stretcher)
tempera on canvas laid on panel
18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 61 cm.)
Painted in 1939.

with Marlborough Fine Art, London.
John Bruckland.
His estate sale; Christie's, London, 26 March 1993, lot 2.
with Jonathan Clark Fine Art, London, where purchased by the present owner.

Note du spécialiste

Vortex No. 2 relates to another painting of 1939, Vortex I, which Simon Guthrie describes as 'a design of seven curved triangles grouped together in the middle of the picture area'. He continues, 'Vortex I reintroduces some of the novelties seen in some of the 1938 crayon sketches. In these the curved triangles are either open, or filled with a solid colour, or there is a marginal colour and a central colour, and this provides great variety. Vortex I and II are extremely tightly composed pictures. Compared to the relaxed grandeur of the 1937 pictures, they are like a clenched fist, the design crystallised into a close-knit group of forms' (S. Guthrie, The Life and Art of John Cecil Stephenson, Grange-over-Sands, 1997, p. 83).