Nude

Details

John Nash, R.A. (1893-1977)
Nude
signed 'JOHN NASH.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
18 1/8 x 24 1/8 in. (46.1 x 61.3 cm.)
Painted circa 1923.
There is a landscape on the reverse by the same hand.

Provenance

with Abbott and Holder, London, where purchased by the present owners' parents on 28 January 1987.

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

The sitter of the present work is believed to be the artist's wife Christine. Nude works by the artist are very rare, with Nash painting only a handful of nudes during the 1920s. The blue vase in the painting is the same vase as in Flowers in a Blue Vase, loosely dated to the 1950s, in the collection of the Sunderland Museum.

We are very grateful to Andrew Lambirth for his assistance in preparing this catalogue entry.

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