Our cowl this month, Women by the Sea by Christopher Wooden, offered for GBP 52,500 at Christie’s Fashionable British Artwork Day Sale on June 18, 2019 in London. A promising younger artist, Wooden sadly lower his profession quick, committing suicide at simply 29 years previous. Regardless of this tragedy and a profession overshadowed by his party-going methods, he left a long-lasting impression by his work. Varied works by Wooden have come to public sale over the previous few years, together with the one featured on this month’s cowl.
After being inspired by Welsh artist Augustus John to go away behind his research of drugs and structure at Liverpool College to pursue portray, Wooden moved to Paris to check at Académie Julian. It was in Paris that he met the Chilean diplomat Antonia de Gandarillas, who launched him to a number of the massive names equivalent to Pablo Picasso, Georges Auric and Jean Cocteau. Sadly, Gandarillas additionally launched Wooden to the usage of opium. Although the hallucinogenic drug is credited with inspiring a few of Wooden’s greatest surrealist works, it finally price him his life. It’s mentioned that withdrawal signs that brought on Wooden deep paranoia, together with the onset of economic issues, finally led him to leap in entrance of a practice and finish his life throughout a visit to Salisbury, England to go to his mom and sister.
Apart from his praised surrealist works, Wooden additionally developed a penchant for the ocean throughout his final years, crediting Cornish fisherman and untrained artist Alfred Wallis for the inspiration. These later works depicted seaside and boat scenes in his attribute naïve model, which had been mentioned to be admired by Picasso, and that are largely thought to be the excessive level of his profession, leaving many to take a position whether or not there may have been even higher works to return had he lived.
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