Christopher Wood

(British, 1901–1930)

Christopher Wood was a British painter known for his idiosyncratic paintings depicting the region around St. Ives. Influenced by the naïve art of the Cornish fisherman Alfred Wallis, Wood utilized skewed perspectives and distorted scale to frame his richly muted colors and elegant lines. “Do you know that all the great modern painters are not trying to see things and paint them through the eyes of a man of forty or fifty or whatever they may be, but through the eyes of the smallest child who sees nothing except the things that would strike him as being the most important?” Wood once asked. “To the childish drawing they add the beauty and refinement of their own experience—this is the explanation of modern painting.” Born on April 7, 1901 in Liverpool, United Kingdom, he went on to study at the Académie Julian in Paris. While in Paris, he met Tony Gadarillas, a Chilean diplomat with hedonistic tendencies. It was Gadarillas who introduced Wood to opium, the drug’s hallucinogenic properties later sparked surrealistic imagery in the artist’s work. Although some of Wood’s greatest works came out of his addiction, withdrawal symptoms caused him deep paranoia. Suffering from acute opiate withdrawal, Wood committed suicide at the age 29 on August 21, 1930 in Salisbury, United Kingdom. Today, his works are in the collections of the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh, and the Tate Gallery in London, among others.

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Christopher Wood (724 results)
THE BROWN HOUSE PASSY, 1928

Christopher Wood

THE BROWN HOUSE PASSY, 1928

Sale Date: November 20, 1991

Auction Closed

GIRL WITH BREAD, 1926

Christopher Wood

GIRL WITH BREAD, 1926

Sale Date: November 7, 1991

Auction Closed

STILL LIFE OF FRUIT IN A DISH

Christopher Wood

STILL LIFE OF FRUIT IN A DISH

Sale Date: November 5, 1991

Auction Closed

SELF PORTRAIT; FARM LANDSCAPE WITH PEASANTS, TWO

Christopher Wood

SELF PORTRAIT; FARM LANDSCAPE WITH PEASANTS, TWO

Sale Date: November 5, 1991

Auction Closed

BORIS KOCHNO AND VLADIMIR DUKELSKY, 1926

Christopher Wood

BORIS KOCHNO AND VLADIMIR DUKELSKY, 1926

Sale Date: October 11, 1991

Auction Closed

A BRETON SEASCAPE, 1930

Christopher Wood

A BRETON SEASCAPE, 1930

Sale Date: October 11, 1991

Auction Closed

DESIGNS FOR COSTUMES AND BOX-OFFICE..., 1930

Christopher Wood

DESIGNS FOR COSTUMES AND BOX-OFFICE..., 1930

Sale Date: October 11, 1991

Auction Closed

MONTECARLO, 1926

Christopher Wood

MONTECARLO, 1926

Sale Date: October 11, 1991

Auction Closed

BRETON SEASCAPE, 1929–1930

Christopher Wood

BRETON SEASCAPE, 1929–1930

Sale Date: October 11, 1991

Auction Closed

COSTUME DESIGN FOR BOX-OFFICE ATTENDANT..., 1930

Christopher Wood

COSTUME DESIGN FOR BOX-OFFICE ATTENDANT..., 1930

Sale Date: October 11, 1991

Auction Closed

COSTUME DESIGN FOR THE THREE-LEGGED JUGGLER..., 1930

Christopher Wood

COSTUME DESIGN FOR THE THREE-LEGGED JUGGLER..., 1930

Sale Date: October 11, 1991

Auction Closed

DESIGN FOR THE DECOR - LUNA PARK, 1930

Christopher Wood

DESIGN FOR THE DECOR - LUNA PARK, 1930

Sale Date: October 11, 1991

Auction Closed

STUDY FOR HELL FLOATERS

Christopher Wood

STUDY FOR HELL FLOATERS

Sale Date: September 19, 1991

Auction Closed

THE MODEL

Christopher Wood

THE MODEL

Sale Date: September 17, 1991

Auction Closed

STUDY OF A NUDE SEATED

Christopher Wood

STUDY OF A NUDE SEATED

Sale Date: September 4, 1991

Auction Closed

NO. 24 YARMOUTH

Christopher Wood

NO. 24 YARMOUTH

Sale Date: June 28, 1991

Auction Closed

CORNISH WINDOW, 1928

Christopher Wood

CORNISH WINDOW, 1928

Sale Date: June 6, 1991

Auction Closed

MARSEILLES HARBOUR, 1927

Christopher Wood

MARSEILLES HARBOUR, 1927

Sale Date: June 6, 1991

Auction Closed

STUDY OF TWO WOMEN; ALSO ANOTHER BY THE SAME...

Christopher Wood

STUDY OF TWO WOMEN; ALSO ANOTHER BY THE SAME...

Sale Date: May 7, 1991

Auction Closed

CAFE DES DEUX MAGOTS, PARIS (AND TWELVE OTHER...

Christopher Wood

CAFE DES DEUX MAGOTS, PARIS (AND TWELVE OTHER...

Sale Date: May 2, 1991

Auction Closed

RECLINING NUDE, 1926

Christopher Wood

RECLINING NUDE, 1926

Sale Date: May 1, 1991

Auction Closed

KNEELING FEMALE NUDE

Christopher Wood

KNEELING FEMALE NUDE

Sale Date: March 28, 1991

Auction Closed

Mother and child, 1925–1925

Christopher Wood

Mother and child, 1925–1925

Sale Date: March 27, 1991

Auction Closed

NUDE WITH A STRIPED RUG, MERAUD GUINNESS, 1928–1928

Christopher Wood

NUDE WITH A STRIPED RUG, MERAUD GUINNESS, 1928–1928

Sale Date: March 7, 1991

Auction Closed

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