MARY FEDDEN. STILL LIFE WITH JUGS. 1966. FOR SALE

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Size: 22” x 26” or 56cm x 66cm (excluding frame)

Size (including frame): 27” x 31” or 68.5cm x 78.5cm

Medium: Oil on canvas

Signed and dated: “Fedden 1966” bottom left

Framing: A period gilt and cream linen frame in good condition. Probably Mary Fedden’s original frame

Provenance: Bought by a distinguished collector directly from Mary and thence by descent to the current owner

MARY FEDDEN. STILL LIFE WITH JUGS. 1966.

Still Life with Jugs is a reasonably early work and depicts a typical Fedden still life of eggs, jugs and a sugar jar in the foreground, all painted in beautiful muted tones, very redolent of the 1960s. Then in the background there is the striking contrast of a rich blue seascape, a spit of land reaching across from the left of the scene, merging with an almost perfectly clear blue sky, barring a single white cloud (the cloud in particular is very reminiscent of Mary’s husband Julian Trevelyan’s paintings at this time). Overall, it’s a wonderfully tranquil and yet dramatic scene – a great example of Mary’s style in the 1960s, which then remained fundamentally unchanged for the next 50 years or so.

In his book Mary Fedden Enigmas and Variations, Christopher Andreae writes about her landscape paintings: “Mary Fedden’s compositional balancing of solid and space, air and object, allows for a rich play of colour, but her colour too is ordered and balanced. She often says how much she dislikes too many colours in a painting. She prefers one dominant colour – red, blue, black or grey – like a key in a piece of music. Everything else must harmonise with this dominant colour, which is a kind of surround. But then some small part of the painting might punctuate this main colour with a vivid contrasting hue.”

MARY FEDDEN. STILL LIFE WITH JUGS. 1966.  Available for sale – please contact us for further details.