James Ferrier Pryde, H.R.O.I. (1866-1941)

Study for The Deserted Garden

Details

James Ferrier Pryde, H.R.O.I. (1866-1941)
Study for The Deserted Garden
signed 'Pryde' (lower left)

oil on canvas
10 x 14 in. (25.4 x 35.5 cm.)

Provenance

with Leicester Galleries, London.
with Redfern Gallery, London.
The Late E.C. Howell, his sale; Christie's, London, 18 November 1960, lot 45 (5 gns. to Agnew).

Literature

D. Hudson, James Pryde, London, 1949, p. 94.

Exhibited

Edinburgh, National Gallery of Modern Art, James Pryde, August-October 1992, no. 65.

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Lot Essay

The present composition is a study for a large oil entitled, The Deserted Garden (circa 1909; Collection Lord Cowdray, see D. Hudson, op. cit., p. 93, pl. XV11). The Deserted Garden was one of eighteen paintings bought or commissioned by the first Lady Cowdray for the library in Dunecht House in Aberdeenshire between 1912 and 1922.

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