![AW44](https://images.kettlesyard.cam.ac.uk/uploads/1932/01/AW44.jpg?fit=50%2C40)
Photo: © Kettle's Yard
Painting
Crucifixion, or Allegory with three figures and two dogs, 1932-34
Alfred Wallis
Oil on card
254 x 170 mm
[AW 44]
Not on display
About the artist
Born 1855 – Died 1942
Wallis was born in Devon. He worked as a fisherman and later a scrap-metal merchant in St. Ives, Cornwall. After the death of his wife in 1922, he turned to painting as a way of fending off loneliness.