[Martin Bell, RA, painter.] Colourful juvenile painting on paper, depicting Eve, the apple, and Pythagoras, with text: 'The Serpent on the fatal tree | Was l'esprit de géometrie'.

On 20 x 15 cm piece of paper torn from an exercise book. Aged and worn, with fraying to left-hand edge where the item has been torn away from the exercise book, but in fair overall condition. A faux-naive effort, crude but full of energy, painted in orange, yellow, red, blue, grey, purple, green. On reverse in pencil: 'Juvenile | painting | By Martin Bell'. Depicts the upside down face of a rosy-cheeked Eve, at centre, behind a grey windowpane cross which quarters the painting, surrounded by foliage in different colours, with a stern-looking Pythagoras at bottom right, pointing to a geometric diagram. The Blakean text, in red paint, runs alongside the right-hand edge: 'The Serpent on the fatal tree | Was l'esprit de géometrie'.