George Downs
Cubist Still Life, c. 1938
Oil on canvas
21 x 26 inches
Signed
£4750.00
Provenance
Private collection
Note: Julian Trevelyan befriended George Downs in the 1930s (referenced throughout Indigo Days as ‘my friend George’) - Downs was a cockney silk stockings salesman in the Caledonian Road with a passion for modern art and Braque in particular. Trevelyan encouraged him as a painter and included him in many group shows (inc the surrealist group) and collaborated with him on murals etc. He later became an ardent communist.