λ FELIX KELLY (BRITISH 1914-1994), SNOW IN THE PARK

λ FELIX KELLY (BRITISH 1914-1994) SNOW IN THE PARK Oil on board Signed (lower right) 36.5 x 29cm (14¼ x 11¼in.) Provenance: Sale, Christie’s London, 28 March 1996, lot 195 Abbott and Holder, London Literature: Donald Bassett, Fix: The Art and Life of Felix Kelly, Darrow Press, 2006, pp. 64, 67, illus. The present work from 1945, is part of a small group of paintings by Kelly, which feature nuns, either in the background of a landscape, as in the present work, or as the main subject, such as in the slightly earlier painting, The Nun, 1942. In the foreground of the wintery scene Kelly has depicted Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Saint Longinus (St Peter's, Rome) of 1638, surrounded by an unsettling wood of leafless and storm-torn trees (ibid., p. 64). Condition Report Disclaimer, λ, λ FELIX KELLY (BRITISH 1914-1994) SNOW IN THE PARK Oil on board Signed (lower right) 36.5 x 29cm (14¼ x 11¼in.) Provenance: Sale, Christie’s London, 28 March 1996, lot 195 Abbott and Holder, London Literature: Donald Bassett, Fix: The Art and Life of Felix Kelly, Darrow Press, 2006, pp. 64, 67, illus. The present work from 1945, is part of a small group of paintings by Kelly, which feature nuns, either in the background of a landscape, as in the present work, or as the main subject, such as in the slightly earlier painting, The Nun, 1942. In the foreground of the wintery scene Kelly has depicted Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Saint Longinus (St Peter's, Rome) of 1638, surrounded by an unsettling wood of leafless and storm-torn trees (ibid., p. 64). FELIX KELLY (BRITISH 1914-1994), SNOW IN THE PARK, Provenance:, Literature:, The Art and Life of Felix Kelly, The Nun, Saint Longinus, wood of leafless and storm-torn trees, ibid, Condition Report Disclaimer

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