The Artist and his Daemon
1958
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1958
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
The Artist and his Daemon is a 1958 watercolor by Cecil Collins, a Contemporary Abstract work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Cecil Collins painted *The Artist and his Daemon* in 1958. It’s a watercolour held at the Victoria and Albert Museum. The work shows two simple geometric shapes—one seems to sit at an easel. Collins linked myth to art. His title hints at a guiding spirit watching the artist. This idea ties to Blake and Palmer, two earlier English artists. Look up Collins, Cecil next.
The work presents two geometric abstract figures rendered in black and white gouache over a brick-red ground, one figure seated in a manner that suggests an artist at an easel, with the title referencing a mythological daemon to convey the artist’s focus on humanity’s connection to the spiritual. Large, gestural white gouache brushstrokes on a dark background produce a luminous effect, and the piece is signed and dated in the lower right corner.
Read the full account in the museum source.
James Henry Cecil Collins MBE was an English painter and printmaker, originally associated with the Surrealist movement.
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