Tarmac III

Details

Edward Wadsworth, A.R.A. (1889-1949)
Tarmac III
signed and dated 'Edward Wadsworth./1919.' (lower right) and inscribed '"TARMAC."' (lower left)
ink
13 3/8 x 19 ¼ in. (33.8 x 49 cm.)

Provenance

Purchased at the 1920 exhibition by Alec G. Walker, and by descent to the present owners.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, The Black Country, London, Leicester Galleries, 1920, no. 10, pl. XVII.
B. Wadsworth, Edward Wadsworth: A Painter's Life, Salisbury, 1989, no. W/B 33, as 'Tarmac 3', n.p.
J. Black, Edward Wadsworth: Form, Feeling and Calculation: The Complete Paintings and Drawings, London, 2005, p. 166, no. 104, illustrated.

Exhibited

London, Leicester Galleries, The Black Country, January 1920, no. 10.
London, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Edward Wadsworth 1889-1949: Paintings Drawings and Prints, July - August, 1974, no. 31.
Truro, Royal Cornwall Museum, Crysede - The Unique Textile Designs of Alec Walker, May - July 1993, ex-catalogue.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

In 1919 Wadsworth ceased to be part of the London Group, of which he was a founder member. Wadsworth dedicated the second half of the the year to small scale works of the Black Country, and following the overwhelming success of these works at the Leicester Galleries exhibition in 1920 his work was published by Ovid Press. The same year Wadsworth contributed to Wyndham Lewis's Group X exhibition at the Mansard Gallery; the nine members of the short lived group included William Roberts, Frank Dobson, Charles Ginner and John Turnbull.

Alec G. Walker was part of the Vorticist revival, Group X, and was a frequent visitor to Wadsworth’s studio.

Another work by Wadsworth from Walker's collection, Ladle Slag Round Oak II, was sold in these Rooms on 12 October 2011, lot 4.

We are very grateful to Dr Jonathan Black for his assistance in preparing this catalogue entry.

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