Sixty Works by Modern Masters - Flipbook - Page 123
Bryan Ingham
"As an artist I’m quite sure
you’re better off living alone."
Bryan Ingham
British, 1936 - 1997
Large Oval Still Life, 1992
Pencil and oil on wood relief
36 x 40½ inches / 91.5 x 103 cm
Signed, titled, dated and numbered on the reverse:
Bryan Ingham Large oval still life 1992 1/2
Bryan Ingham’s unique and dynamic
form of Cubism builds on the
foundations laid by earlier exponents
of the movement such as Braque,
Picasso and Gris. His experiments
in polychrome cubic relief result
in works that hover between the
mediums of painting and sculpture,
such as the present example.
The meditative effect produced by
Large Oval Still Life, as well as its
feeling of monumentality and purity
of form, is typical of the artist’s
work and recalls the style of fellow
twentieth-century British artist Ben
Nicholson. The majority of Ingham’s
career was spent in Cornwall where
he became associated with the postwar Modern Movement in St Ives,
and where he absorbed the influence
of Nicholson’s work from the 1940s
and 50s.
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Provenance
Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London
The artist’s family