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Provenance
Probably with the Redfern Gallery, where acquired by the family of the present owners
Private Collection, U.K.
The present and following lot date to a period of renewal in both Feiler's artistic and personal life. Privately, he separated from his first wife, June Miles, and met a new partner, Catharine Armitage, whom he married in 1970. He divided his time between teaching in Bristol and his studio in Cornwall, where the landscape had long influenced his practice, although increasingly astronomy and industrial machinery would prove to be further points of inspiration. Movement II and Linked Forms, Blue (see lot 15) are both part of a series of works inspired by the motion of a centrifugal pump used for drainage in Cornish mines. Preparatory sketches dating to 1965 depict the heavy machinery surrounded by torrid water streams. Yet for his paintings from the series, Feiler pares back the power of such elements, and calms his subject through abstraction resulting in a clean and dynamic composition.