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Paul Feiler (British, 1918-2013) Trencrom 45.7 x 35.2 cm. (18 x 14 in.) image 1
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Paul Feiler
(British, 1918-2013)
Trencrom 45.7 x 35.2 cm. (18 x 14 in.)

18 November 2020, 15:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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Paul Feiler (British, 1918-2013)

Trencrom
signed, titled and dated 'PAUL FEILER/TRENCROM/1961' (verso)
oil on canvas
45.7 x 35.2 cm. (18 x 14 in.)

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Provenance
Private Collection, U.K.
Sale; Dreweatt Neate, Newbury, 18 May 2010, lot 174
Private Collection, U.K.

With the proceeds from his first one-man exhibition at The Redfern Gallery in early 1953, Feiler bought a disused chapel at Kerris near Newlyn, which he converted for use as a studio. From this date the Cornish landscape became a prominent feature in his painting. Initially such examples consisted of specific visual references but, as his manner of working became increasingly abstract across the decade, by the early 60s Feiler's aim was to express the experience of a given location rather than of its representational features. He comments:

"Woven into my paintings are visual memories of physical experience of a landscape, and therefore the atmospheric quality of Cornwall is there such from sea to sky. I feel I have retained this within the non-landscape pictorial concept... One constantly travels to the coast in order to get that kind of relationship that, it seems to me, should be the Cornish quality, the Cornish atmosphere" (Paul Feiler in interview with Michael Tooby, exhibition catalogue, Paul Feiler: Form to Essence – Theme and Development, Tate St Ives, June 1995).

Located roughly ten miles north east of Feiler's studio, Trencrom Hill affords views north to St Ives and Carbis Bay. In addition to Feiler, the hill informed other key artists of the period such as Ben Nicholson (March 1949 (Trencrom)) and Peter Lanyon (Trencrom, 1951).

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