No. 7 CALENDAR

Alfred Wallis made this beautiful painting of a three-masted barque on the back of a calendar.

In light of yesterday's post, it is easy to see why Wallis’s words - "i Thought it not nessery To paint it all around so i never Don it" - were taken to refer to his practice of leaving areas of cardboard unpainted.

He clearly appreciated the colour of the cardboard here as part of the composition, deliberately leaving much of it visible.