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Wallis sold few paintings
- Through Nicholson and Wood, Wallis was introduced to Jim Ede who promoted his work in London. Despite this attention, Wallis sold few paintings and continued to live in poverty until he died in the Madron workhouse near Penzance.
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Despite this attention, Wallis sold few paintings and continued to live in poverty until he died in the Madron workhouse near Penzance. He is buried in Barnoon cemetery, overlooking St Ives Porthmeor beach and the Tate St Ives gallery.
Alfred made his work using scrap everyday materials and he often used paint left over from the boating industry. Two-mastered ship was painted on the back of a Great Western Railway fair schedule, and Two Boats was painted on a Selfridges box.
Alfred Wallis (18 August 1855 – 29 August 1942) was a British fisherman and artist known for his port landscapes and shipping scenes painted in a naïve style. Having no artistic training, he began painting at the age of 70, using household paint on scraps of cardboard.
After inviting them into his cottage, Wallis was genuinely surprised when the pair asked to buy some of his paintings. Having never considered a price he simply told them to give him what they wanted.
- British
- August 18, 1855
- Devon, England
- August 29, 1942
Despite this attention, Wallis sold few paintings and continued to live in poverty until he died in the Madron workhouse near Penzance. He is buried in Barnoon cemetery, overlooking St Ives Porthmeor beach and the Tate St Ives gallery.
- British
- August 18, 1855
- United Kingdom
- August 29, 1942
Nov 4, 2019 · Seen in paintings by Wood (Dancing Sailors, Brittany, France, Newark Museum and Art Gallery, 1930) and Nicholson (1930, Porthmeor Beach, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, 1930) this move to abstraction used the same flattening of shapes and simplification of colours seen in Wallis's art.
British naive painter of sailing ships and landscapes. He went to sea as a cabin boy and cook at the age of 9, and from about 1880 worked as a fisherman in Cornwall. In 1890 he opened a rag-and-bone store in St Ives and after retiring from this did odd jobs, including selling ice cream.
