30. Alfred Janes
This side of the truth
Oil on board
199600006 96.5 x 59.5 cm.
1954 illustrated

This painting may have been a tribute to Dylan Thomas who died on the 9th November 1953. Dylan was an old friend of Alfred Janes both from their time in Swansea and early days in London. Janes took his title from a poem written by Dylan in 1945, This side of the truth, in which the bard, as if walking beside the sea on a hot summer's day, speaks to his son of life and death. The artist reflects and imagines the context of the poem in a crisp profound composition.