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Edward Burra (1905-1976)
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Edward Burra (1905-1976)

Lupins and peonies

Details
Edward Burra (1905-1976)
Lupins and peonies
signed 'E.J. Burra' (lower right)
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour
30¼ x 53 in. (76.8 x 134.6 cm.)
Executed in 1957-59.
Provenance
Eliot Hodgkin.
with Alex, Reid and Lefevre, London, where purchased by Anthony d'Offay on 27 July 1982.
with Anthony d'Offay, London, where purchased by the present owner in 1982.
Literature
A. Causey, Edward Burra Complete Catalogue, Oxford, 1985, no. 257, illustrated.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

Andrew Causey comments on the present work as stemming from the hallucinatory intensity of Burra's work, 'a bed of yellow lupins and swathes of cherry blossom seem to melt under his gaze, and the flowers in each case become a soft glutinous mass; this is not really a Surrealist metamorphosis because identity is not being changed, there is no use of symbol or metaphor' (A. Causey, loc. cit.).

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