Illustration to Ezekiel, chapter 3
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Where is “Illustration to Ezekiel, chapter 3” now? Collection: Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Not on view at present. Checked September 25, 2026.
London, United Kingdom
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About the work
Cecil Collins (1908-1989) worked both as a painter and designer. He studied at the Plymouth School of art between 1923 and 1927 and the Royal College of Art, London from 1927-1931. In the early 1930s the artist became exposed to the work of artists Picasso (1881-1973) and Klee (1879-1940). In 1936 he participated in the International Surrealist Exhibition, London, before moving away from the movement. The artist returned to his native Devon to teach at Dartington Hall from 1939 to 1943. He believed in art being created through visionary experience and spiritual quest and his works from the 1940s echo the mystical feel of the artists Samuel Palmer (1805-1881) and Odilon Redon (1840-1916).
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This pencil drawing is for one of 12 illustrations that Cecil Collins made for the Oxford illustrated Old Testament, published in 1968. The five volumes were illustrated with the work of twenty two contemporary British artists including David Hockney (born 1937), Peter Blake (born 1932), Carol Annand and Sheila Robinson as well as Collins. This work is an illustration to Ezekiel, Chapter 3. Drawing of a reclining figure, reaching out his hand to the Holy Spirit, in the form of a dove, which extends a hand to raise the man up. The illustration accompanies the lines " Moreover he said unto me, 'son of man, eat that thou findest; eat this roll, and go and speak unto the house of Israel.'", Ezekiel 3:1.
Victoria and Albert Museum
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- E.1599-2001
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- Image: Victoria and Albert Museum — © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
