Summer Football

1971 ⓘ
Oil on canvas
74 × 100 cm
Inventory no. MF-P-31
Collection: Michael Fell Estate
© Michael Fell Estate
Photograph © Lucy Dawkins

An informal football game plays out in an open setting, with players distributed across the field rather than grouped around a single clash. Angled bodies and varied spacing suggest movement and attention shifting across the ground. Figures and landscape are kept within a shallow pictorial space that holds the action close.