Hands behind Head
This at first unremarkable posture gradually made itself insistent enough to be included as a motif in itself. Seen together, some of these pictures have a slightly unsettling effect like the tolling of a bell.
Morning, The Bedroom (1983)
oil on board - 14.5h x 31w (cm)
The morning stretch seems to have elongated the figure of this man. There is something untypically bold and 'modern' about this picture with perhaps a reference to Rouault whose work Dad greatly admired. (The four-poster bed is recognisable as the one that Dad made). [PB]
Evening (1980)
oil on board - 40.6h x 91.4w (cm)
The figures here are elongated and the man with his hands behind his head suggests a cruciform image.
The Shadow (1976)
oil on board - 31h x 42w (cm)
This figure’s hands are actually in front of his head as he shades his eyes from the direct sun. The sun casts his shadow strangely onto the sky just above the horizon of the sea.
The Toy Boat (1987)
oil on board - 27.8h x 29.7w (cm)
The Bathers (1986)
oil on board - 10h x 33.5w (cm)
The Balcony (1983)
oil on board - 62.5h x 75.5w (cm)
The Black Sail (1982)
oil on board - 17h x 32w (cm)
The Bathroom (1982)
oil on board - 40h x 61w (cm)
Yacht Race (1981)
oil on board - 91h x 130w (cm)
Figures on a Beach (1979)
oil on board - 56h x 81.5w (cm)
Sebastian (1977)
oil on canvas board - 20.2h x 51.5w (cm)
Fragment (1971)
oil on board - 15.2h x 61w (cm)
Robing Bathers on a Rainy Beach (1969)
oil on canvas - 51h x 75w (cm)
Hole in the Wall (1968)
oil on board - 27.9h x 61w (cm)
Sunbathing on the Jetty, Penzance (1939)
oil on canvas - 40h x 50w (cm)