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Paul Nash (1889-1946)
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Paul Nash (1889-1946)

Badbury Rings, Dorset

Details
Paul Nash (1889-1946)
Badbury Rings, Dorset
signed 'Paul Nash' (lower left) and inscribed 'Badbury Rings/(Dorset)' (on the reverse)
pencil and watercolour
11 x 15¼ in. (28 x 38.7 cm.)
Provenance
with Arthur Tooth & Sons, London.
The Hon. J.T. Roberts, by whom purchased at the 1948 exhibition, and by descent.
Exhibited
London, Leicester Galleries, New Year Exhibition, January 1948, no. 4.
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Lot Essay

The Dorset Shell Guide, which was published in 1936, involved Nash in much travelling, historical research, drawing and writing. His interest focused particularly on such places as Maiden Castle and Badbury Rings, fortresses that witnessed man's efforts to defend themselves against each other, but which are seen now repossessed by nature, and which speak for the emptiness of human endeavour (see A. Causey, op. cit, p. 271).

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