PAUL FEILER (1918-2013)
Untitled, 1960
Oil on board
Signed and dated on the verso, 'PAUL FEILER / 5 5 60'
66 x 44.5 cm (26 x 17 ½ in)
Provenance
Private collection, Wexham, c. 1970s
Osborne Samuel, London
While Ede's connection with Feiler is not yet documented,
the painting he acquired accords well with those he
was collecting in the mid-1960s. Boskenna three
(1963), named after a small settlement near Lamorna
in Cornwall, is an abstract composition featuring three
pebble-like forms against an off-white ground. It is shown
in A Way of Life as a transient, partially documented
background to Gaudier-Brzeska's Caritas (1914), a
sculpture that recurs several times in the book in its more
usual placement on the round dining table originally from
Elm Row.
1
Describing this table, Ede wrote:
Even Brancusi's 'Fish' was once its centre-piece. It
must have been then that one of the evening papers
wrote 'The Edes entertain extensively but not
expensively; you may sit down to a three-course or
even a two-course dinner but in the middle of the table
may be a statue worth thousands of pounds.'
2
1 A Way of Life: Kettle's Yard, Cambridge University Press, 1984 (2023 reprint),
pp. 142, 100, 101, 138.
2 Ede, A Way of Life, p138.
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