Not on display
- Artist
- Gillian Ayres CBE RA 1930–2018
- Medium
- Acrylic paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 1680 × 1250 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the artist 2013
- Reference
- T13725
Display caption
As with most of Ayres’s work, the title Weddell was added once the painting was finished. It may derive from the sea of the same name, as the painting invokes an impression of the power and vastness of nature. Weddell is built up with heavily textured layers of paint, although the final layer appears thinly applied. Here Ayres presents paint as both a material act and a substance.
Gallery label, October 2019
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