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Paul Feiler (British, 1918-2013) Aduton LV 27.7 x 27.7 cm. (10 7/8 x 10 7/8 in.) image 1
Paul Feiler (British, 1918-2013) Aduton LV 27.7 x 27.7 cm. (10 7/8 x 10 7/8 in.) image 2
The Property of a Private Family Collection from a Knightsbridge Residence
Lot 16AR

Paul Feiler
(British, 1918-2013)
Aduton LV 27.7 x 27.7 cm. (10 7/8 x 10 7/8 in.)

22 November 2022, 15:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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Paul Feiler (British, 1918-2013)

Aduton LV
signed, titled and dated 'PAUL FEILER/ADUTON LV (xi) 1990' (verso)
oil on canvas laid on panel
27.7 x 27.7 cm. (10 7/8 x 10 7/8 in.)

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Provenance
With The Redfern Gallery, London, where acquired by the family of the present owners
Private Collection, U.K.

'What it really amounts to from a pictorial point of view is that I am very concerned with the unknown and the destiny of creatures and human beings and the infinity of one's existence, the infinity of life as such, and I am very interested in Greek mythology and Greek temples. And there is within a temple, in both Greek temples and Egyptian places, the 'inner sancta sanctorum' that no man has ever been to, no God has ever been to, because it is merely a void that has been made into space by building a brick wall round it without a space, without an entrance to it. And I call these paintings Adytum and Aduton, because I am interested in the infinite and I am interested in the remoteness of one's existence... I'm trying to find that kind of imbalance which produces the balance that produces the tug-of-war that produces the balance that produces the infinity' (Paul Feiler, quoted in Michael Raeburn, Paul Feiler: 1918-2013, London, Lund Humphries, 2018, p.129).

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