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Three Discs & Circle 1967
Oil & pencil on board
Signed, dated & numbered 67/ 7 & inscribed verso
14 x 18 ins 35.5 x 45.5 cms

Exhibited: Penwith Society, 1967
Edinburgh Festival, 1968

This exquisite work represents the height of Wells’ paring down of his visual vocabulary to the barest minimum. All extraneous colour has been removed and we are left with the purest and most complete of forms, devoid of visual distraction. Wells has created a tantalising dynamic between the four circles, which plays with our perceptions of real and imagined space, and as such can be seen as the logical progression from his first initial spatial constructions, created with the guidance of Nicholson and Gabo twenty five years before.




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