James Bone "Falling Atoms" Black Ink Drawing, 1957 structure with glazes --one a painterly

with glazes --one a painterly brown and dark indigo

I think they are just such beautiful objects

She attended the Brighton College of Art

Very good condition and marked on the bottom with a salamander and the word "original"

only noticeable with close inspection

James Bone "Falling Atoms" Black Ink Drawing, 1957 structure with glazes --one a painterlyThis charming 1957 black ink on paper drawing by James Frederic Bone (1929 2015) exemplifies the sort of playfulness and inventiveness that ran throughout his work, very often haunted by a sense of melancholy or bittersweetness as I think is the case here. I must say, the more time I spend looking at and thinking about Bone's work, the more gravity I am finding in it in this case including literally, as these star like atoms (electrons?) exit their