Nostalgic Landscape, study

Details

Paul Nash (1889-1946)
Nostalgic Landscape, study
signed with monogram and dated '1925' (lower right)
pencil and crayon, squared for transfer
6 ¾ x 4 ¾ in. (17.2 x 12.1 cm.)

Literature

A. Causey, Paul Nash, Oxford, 1980, p. 379, no. 361.

Exhibited

London, Hamet Gallery, Paul Nash - Exhibition of Watercolours and Drawings, March - April 1970, no. 11.
London, Hamet Gallery, Paul Nash - Exhibition of Watercolours and Drawings, May 1973, no. 9.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

This is the working drawing for Nostalgic Landscape, 1923-38, in the collection of Leicester City Museums. When comparing the oil and this study, Andrew Causey writes, 'it shows a watch-tower on the sea wall ... Comparisons between the painting and the original drawing, which is dated 1922, shows that the major changes were made in the tower: the removal of a doorway to introduce the interior tunnel and the formation of the upper roundel into an equivalent for the sun' (A. Causey, Paul Nash, Oxford, 1980, pp. 284-285).

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