VALLEY BOTTOM, PORTHGWARRA : 1951

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PATRICK HERON (1920-1999)
VALLEY BOTTOM, PORTHGWARRA : 1951
signed and dated 'P. Heron/51' (lower right), signed again and dated again 'Patrick Heron 51' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
11 x 22 in. (27.9 x 55.9 cm.)
Painted in 1951.

Provenance

with Waddington Galleries, London, where purchased by the present owner in October 2003.

Literature

A.S. Byatt (ed.), exhibition catalogue, Patrick Heron: Early Paintings 1945-1955, London, Waddington Galleries, 2000, p. 29, illustrated.

Exhibited

London, Redfern Gallery, Patrick Heron, October - November 1951, no. 25.
Wakefield, City Art Gallery, Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Patrick Heron, April - May 1952, no. 69.
Nottingham, The Midland Group Gallery, Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by Patrick Heron, November 1952.
Devon, Arts Council of Great Britain, Taw and Torridge Festival, West Country Landscape, July 1953, no. 11.
Huddersfield, Symon Quinn Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Patrick Heron, February - March 1955, no. 13.
London, Waddington Galleries, Patrick Heron: Early Paintings 1945-1955, October - November 2000, no. 14.

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

We are very grateful to Susanna Heron and Andrew Wilson for their assistance in cataloguing this lot. The Patrick Heron Trust is in the process of researching the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work and would like to hear from owners of any works by Patrick Heron, so that these can be included in this comprehensive catalogue. Please write to The Patrick Heron Trust, c/o Christie's Modern British Art Department, 8 King Street, London, SW1Y 6QT, or email at mclothier@christies.com.

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