David Jones (1895-1974)

Brockley Gardens, summer

Details

David Jones (1895-1974)
Brockley Gardens, summer
signed and dated 'DAVID JONES '25/1925' (lower right)
pencil, watercolour and coloured chalks
20 x 15½ in. (50.8 x 39.4 cm.)

Provenance

with Agnew's, London.

Exhibited

London, Anthony d'Offay, David Jones, May-June 1975, no. 4.
Stirling, University, MacRobert Centre Gallery, David Jones (1895-1974), October-November 1976, no. 4.
London, Anthony d'Offay, David Jones (1895-1974), May-June 1979, no. 2, illustrated; this exhibition travelled to Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
London, Austin/Desmond Fine Art, David Jones (1895-1974), April-May 1989, no. 9, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

The present work is one of a number of watercolours executed by Jones between 1925 and 1927 at his parents house on Howson Road in Brockley, a south-eastern suburb of London. A similar composition, A Town Garden (1926; private collection) is illustrated in N. Gray, The Paintings of David Jones, London, 1989, pl. 14.

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