Lot 95: Jim Page-Roberts (b. 1925)

Jim Page-Roberts (b. 1925)
Wading Woman in Water by Bridge
signed and inscribed 'Jim Page-Roberts/Wading Woman in Water by Bridge' (on the reverse), and with studio stamp (on the reverse)
oil and collage on card
23½ x 35½ in. (59.7 x 90.2 cm.)
Painted in 1962.

This unsigned (because he did not want to spoil the simplicity of it) collage with oil paint (using hand ground colour with a wax medium) was painted at Horsemoor Studio, Chieveley, Newbury, Berkshire (later bought by Francis Bacon) after the artist had returned from his year-long drawing voyage around the world in 1958-1959 (see Harbours, Girls and a Slumbering World, Mudlark Press). He had found that after completing over a thousand drawings it was difficult to return to painting. Simple collages seemed to be the interim way forward. This collage is one of those.