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Lemons in a Blue Basket

Image credit: Pallant House Gallery, Chichester

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Wood, although more closely associated with the artistic community of St Ives, began his career in the sophisticated circles of Parisian high society. The tension between his ambitions as an artist and the demands of a hedonistic lifestyle, including an addiction to opium, bedevilled him all his life, eventually contributing to his premature death at the age of 29 years. Whilst in Paris in 1921, Wood met his long-time companion, the Chilean diplomat Antonio de Gandarillas. Together they travelled throughout the Mediterranean, where Wood was introduced to Picasso and Cocteau, and began to experiment with a variety of artistic styles. In a letter to his mother from Sicily in May 1922, Wood described a drawing of lemons, which could apply to this painting: "… the tablecloth is all ruffled, crinkled and troubled with dark shadows and ups and downs which suggest to me the world that these lemons live in, everything that is going on around them.

Pallant House Gallery

Chichester

Title

Lemons in a Blue Basket

Date

1922

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 44 x W 62 cm

Accession number

CHCPH 0269

Acquisition method

bequeathed by Walter Hussey to Chichester District Council, 1985

Work type

Painting

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9 North Pallant, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 1TJ England

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