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Landscape of the Unknown God (1960)

Cecil Collins

oil on hardboard

Manchester Art Gallery

Details

Classification:

Painting

Materials:

Oil, Hardboard

Physical Object Description:

This is an abstract sea/landscape of spontaneous horizontal brushstrokes, with an orange sun in the upper left of the composition, radiating out orange sunbeams into a bright haze immediately around it, and a yellow sky.

Dimensions:

91.4 x 122 cm

Accession Number:

1966.20

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1966

Ownership history:

Purchased from Arthur Tooth and Sons Ltd, London by Eric Newton (1893-1965) for the Contemporary Art Society, 1965; presented in memory of Eric Newton to Manchester Art Gallery, 1966

Subject:

Landscape, Night, Day, Sun, Moon

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