| The
Charles
Tunnicliffe Society Established 2005 "To promote greater awareness of the life and work of Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe OBE, RA 1901-1979" |
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Charles Tunnicliffe explored ideas for a painting by creating composition sketches.
He kept these pieces of artwork in what is best described as personal scrapbooks,
pasting several images onto each page to create a visual record of his compositions.
These composition drawings were often very small, ranging from as little as 5cm x 7cm
up to 20 cm x 20cm, but the majority were perhaps less than the size of a postcard.
His composition ideas were drawn/painted on any scraps of paper that came to hand,
including the backs of letters, spare pieces of tracing and graph paper, pastel paper,
tissue paper, greaseproof paper and sometimes pages from his sketchbooks.
This work was never intended for sale, but in 1986, seven years after his death his
death, the collection of several hundred composition drawings was split up and sold by
"Bunny Bird Fine Art" in association with "The Tryon and Moorland Gallery".
Since then Charles Tunnicliffe's composition drawings have become valued pieces of artwork
in their own right, sought after by collectors of his work and appreciated for their freshness
and spontaneity - it is quite interesting to compare composition drawings with final paintings.
The following images are a small selection of Charles Tunnicliffe's composition drawings.
(For display purposes on this website page the images are larger than the originals)
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