Charles Higgins ('PIC'), Scottish 1893-1980 - Painter and Fairy, 1963;...

Charles Higgins ('PIC'),
Scottish 1893-1980 -

Painter and Fairy, 1963;

oil and fluorescent paint on card, signed lower left 'Pic' and titled and dated on a label attached to the reverse, 9.5 x 7.6 cm: together with 3 other unframed works on paper by the same artist, 'Centurion, 1958', oil and decalcomania on paper laid down on board, signed, titled and dated on the reverse of the mount 'PIC Centurion 1958' , 14.8 x 14.8 cm; 'Lion in Wilderness, 1967', 8.8 x 7.7 cm and 'Water Bird, 1965, 10.4 x 13.5 cm (4) (ARR)

Provenance:
the Estate of the Artist

Note:
writer and painter Charles Higgins painted under the pseudonym of PIC and created some of the most extraordinary and enigmatic British paintings of the 20th century. Setting mythological and fantastical imagery within imagined landscapes, PIC's work transports the viewing through time and the imagination, demonstrating the same visionary zeal as figures such as Marc Chagall, Cecil Collins and Leonora Carrington. His work was exhibited in some of the most important British galleries of the 20th century, including the Wertheim Gallery during the 1930s, Gimpel Fils during the 1940s and 50s and Jack Bilbo's celebrated The Modern Art Gallery in the 1940s.