Winifred NICHOLSON (1893 – 1981)
Rainbow with Movement, late 1970’s
Mixed media on paper
23 ½ x 30 ¾ inches / 56 x 78 cm
Provenance:
Private Collection, Cumbria
Exhibited:
Winifred Nicholson, Unseen works in paper, Crane Kalman Gallery, London, 21st November 2002 – 11th January 2003, ill. in cat.
Colour… has a magic scale which we do not as easily compass for it changes as rapidly as life itself, and as surprisingly – the sevenfold scale of the rainbow – red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet – which of us senses green as a stage further towards the mystery of violet, than orange? Which of us knows that no sunlight can be expressed without a hint of the mystery of violet? Which of us can see the colours that's in the spectrum and the rainbow, beyond violet, beyond magenta? – the colour that we cannot see but has power, the colour that bees can see, and singing birds – the ultraviolet that has chemical meaning, undiscovered as yet artistic vibration.
Winifred Nicholson
‘Unknown Colour’, Unknown Colour, p.251