Mary Potter (1900 - 1981)

Oil on canvas
81.4 x 76.2 cm
Titled on the stretcher verso

Provenance
Mr & Mrs R Pilkington
New Arts Centre, London
Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London
Private Collection, UK

Exhibited
Whitechapel Gallery, London, Mary Potter: Paintings 1938-1964, 1964, No. 84


“What a mistake to bring the heavy engines of analysis and interpretation to bear on Mary Potter’s pictures. They exist in the domain of seeing and feeling…They show the delicately balanced intuition and the openness of heart advocated by the masters of Zen, and in fact Mary Potter’s pictures have much in common with Chinese and Japanese ink paintings done under Zen influence. They discover in nature moments which seem to be both permanent and exceptional...”

Kenneth Clark in exhibition catalogue: Mary Potter, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 1964, p.6