Lot 122: Horse's Head

Humphrey Jennings (1907-1950) Horse's Head oil on canvas 30 x 24 in. (76.2 x 61 cm.) Painted circa 1937-1940.

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'In about 1936, the horse started to fascinate Jennings, conciding with his desire to retrieve the machine from a purely materialist conception. In Horse's Head, the blending of the mechanical and the animal through the very angular, almost vorticistic features of the head ... ' (M.Remy, Surrealism in Britain, Hants, 1999, p. 189)