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God has Flown from the World

Cecil Collins, 1930

This work shows the importance that text was beginning to play in Collins' work. There is a lengthy inscription which forms a desperate cry which both explains and describes the action depicted in the image. The text includes quotations from Valois, St. Matthew's Gospel and Pascal. It begins, 'God has flown from this world, Ho! ho! ho! What a flight! you cannot dissociate [sic] war and disease from the universal reprobate - God (Antoni Valois) ...'

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Title of artwork, date

God has Flown from the World, 1930

Date supported

2005

Medium and material

Pen, brush, black & brown ink on paper

Dimensions

48.2 x 67 cm

Grant

2500

Total cost

7000

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