Wednesday 29 November 2023
Charles Higgins ('PIC'), Scottish 1893-1980 - Industrial landscape; gouache and ink on paper,...
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Charles Higgins ('PIC'),
Scottish 1893-1980 -
Industrial landscape;
gouache and ink on paper, signed lower right 'Pic', 20.7 x 25.5 cm: together with 2 other works by the same artist, 'Innocent Ride, 1963' and 'Philosophie aux Derniers Jours, 1961' (unframed) (3)
Provenance:
the Estate of the Artist
Note:
writer and painter Charles Higgins painted under the pseudonym of PIC and created some of the most extraordinary and enigmatic British paintings of the 20th century. Setting mythological and fantastical imagery within imagined landscapes, PIC's work transports the viewing through time and the imagination, demonstrating the same visionary zeal as figures such as Marc Chagall, Cecil Collins and Leonora Carrington. His work was exhibited in some of the most important British galleries of the 20th century, including the Wertheim Gallery during the 1930s, Gimpel Fils during the 1940s and 50s and Jack Bilbo's celebrated The Modern Art Gallery in the 1940s.
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