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Lot Essay
Burra began to make regular trips motoring tours with his sister Anne after 1965, visiting mainly the less populated areas of Britain, such as East Anglia, the Yorkshire Moors, Scotland and Devon and Cornwall.
He preferred mountainous landscapes and moorland but he painted his native South East when travel was difficult. He did not sketch on these journeys, but instead spent a long time seated in the car taking in his surroundings which he recreated at home with drawing pads and ball point pens, building the design up on sheets of paper which he joined together as he worked.
(see A. Causey, Edward Burra, Hayward Gallery Exhibition Catalogue, London, 1985, p.53).
He preferred mountainous landscapes and moorland but he painted his native South East when travel was difficult. He did not sketch on these journeys, but instead spent a long time seated in the car taking in his surroundings which he recreated at home with drawing pads and ball point pens, building the design up on sheets of paper which he joined together as he worked.
(see A. Causey, Edward Burra, Hayward Gallery Exhibition Catalogue, London, 1985, p.53).