SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND, AND DONATED IN MEMORY OF MISS EVELYN HIGGINS

Paul Nash (1889-1946)

The Landscape Fading

Details

Paul Nash (1889-1946)
The Landscape Fading
signed 'Paul/Nash' (lower left), signed again, dated and inscribed 'The Landscape fading/Paul Nash 1945' (on the reverse)
pencil and watercolour
11 x 15½ in. (28 x 39.4 cm.)

Provenance

Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, where purchased by Clare Neilson in 1945. Evelyn Higgins, London.

Literature

M. Nash, Photographic Records, 1945, no.32.
M. Eates, Paul Nash The Master of the Image, London, 1973, p.136, pl.139.
A. Causey, Paul Nash, Oxford, 1980, no.1236.

Exhibited

London, Tate Gallery, Paul Nash, November-December 1975, no.224:
this exhibition travelled to Plymouth, City Art Gallery, January-February 1976; Colchester, The Minories, February-March 1976; Bradford, Cartwright Hall, March-April 1976; and Manchester, City Art Gallery, April-May 1976.

Lot Essay

A view of Cleeve Hill in Gloucestershire, executed during Nash's visit in June 1945.

The present work was included in a educational film on the Art of Paul Nash which was made by the Arts Council in 1976 and directed by Tristram Powell.

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