Ex Devina Pulchritudine

Details

DAVID JONES, C.H. (1895-1974)
Ex Devina Pulchritudine
signed and inscribed 'Dafyd j. a'i wnaeth' (lower left), dated 'MCMLVI' (lower right), signed and dated again 'David Jones/June 1956.' and extensively inscribed (on the reverse)
pencil and gouache on paper
15 1/2 x 18 3/4 in. (39.4 x 47.7 cm.)
Executed in 1956.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, David Jones, London, Tate Gallery, 1981, pp. 63, 133, no. 155, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, David Jones: Paintings, Drawings, Inscriptions, Prints, Bristol, Arts Council of Great Britain, City Museum and Art Gallery, 1989, p. 46, no. 72.

Exhibited

London, Tate Gallery, David Jones, July - September 1981, no. 155.
Bristol, Arts Council of Great Britain, City Museum and Art Gallery, David Jones: Paintings, Drawings, Inscriptions, Prints, March - April 1989, no. 72: this exhibition travelled to Leeds, City Art Gallery, April - May; Cambridge, Kettle's Yard, June - July; and Llandudno, Oriel Mostyn, July - August 1989.

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Lot Essay

'The Latin text is from St Thomas Aquinas, 'All being is derived from the divine beauty … nothing is in the mind, unless first in the senses'. The English is from the translation of the Roman de la Rose, attributed to Chaucer. The inscription was made for Clarissa, Lady Avon, whose name appears in Greek letters at the lower edge of the work. The present work is one of a group of inscriptions made at about this date for friends, all are comparatively small." (Exhibition catalogue, David Jones, London, Tate Gallery, p. 133)

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