JOHN CHRISTOPHERSON
1921-1996
Valley of Signs
Oil and gesso on board
46 x 40 cm
Signed (lower-right) and signed, titled, dated and numbered on the reverse
1960
£3,000
Provenance
Reginald Hill, owner of Reille Gallery, London Private collection, gifted by the above.
Exhibited
Reille Gallery, London
Description
A sensational early work by the idiosyncratic John Christopherson, which displays the influence of Jean Dubuffet on the artist in the paint handling and sheer breadth of imagination. Beneath the richly textured archaeological facade and night sky lie shades of crimson and turquoise.
“Christopherson’s pictures linger in the memory. His image world is a distillation of cultural debris sifted with poetic intensity”