Paul Nash (1889-1946)

Ironmaster's Folly

Details

Paul Nash (1889-1946)
Ironmaster's Folly
signed 'Paul Nash' (lower right), dated and inscribed 'Ironmaster's Folly (Spring 1941)/Ironmaster's Wisdom Summer 1941' (lower left)
charcoal and watercolour
15½ x 22½ in. (39.4 x 57.1 cm.)

Provenance

Clare Neilson.
Spink, London.

Literature

A. Causey, Paul Nash, Oxford, 1980, no.1074, pl.351.

Exhibited

Cheltenham, Art Gallery, Paintings, Drawings and Designs by Paul Nash, June 1945, no.13.
Bath, Holbourne of Menstrie Museum, Paul Nash, June 1962, no.22.
London, Morley College, Artists at the Leicester Galleries 1902-1969, 1969, no.18.
London, Hamet Gallery, Paul Nash 1889-1946, Drawings and Watercolours, May 1973, no.58 (illustrated).

Lot Essay

The present work was executed at Madams, the Gloucestershire home of Nash's friends Charles and Clare Neilson which the artist first visited in June 1938. The folly in the garden was designed by Charles Neilson, and the inscription refers to his connnection with the iron and steel industry. The dating suggest that it was begun on Nash's visit to Madams in late May-early June 1941, and completed when he was there again in July'. (A. Causey, loc. cit.).

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