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Painting 1976
Oil & pencil on board
Numbered 87/ 10, studio stamped & dated verso
12 x 16 ins 30.5 x 40.5 cms

The last painting in the exhibition illustrates Wells’ increasing awareness of the development and consistency of his career. Many of the forms used in this work, from the crescent shape in the upper left, to the small drawn circle above it, refer back to his war time constructivist works, whilst the coloured square within a square to the lower right is drawn from more recently produced work. All of this geometric visual language is combined with the central, heavily textured area. This may be an earlier painting reworked by the artist, a practice that dominated his late work from the 1980s.



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