Watercolour on Paper
21cm x 18 cm, framed 37 x 34 cm
Signed with initials and dated 1915
This beautiful and impressive watercolour has a magic and an enigma to it. It asks several questions such as who Dorothy Wilcox was, this seems to be her only known work, and what she is doing in Rouen during the First World War in 1915. Adding to this mystery it seems to show an understanding of the European avant-garde of the recent years, of Emil Nolde and Edvard Munch.
It captures a time, now gone but only just out of grasp, of the Europe in run up and commencement of the Great War. The piece's vivid colours and bleeding wash give it a lucid and dreamy quality, enhancing this nostalgic feeling of a specific moment now passed.
