Details
Paul Nash (1859-1946)
Wood on the Hill
signed and dated 'Paul Nash/1937' (lower left), signed again and inscribed 'Wood on the Hill/Paul Nash' (on the reverse)
pencil and watercolour
227/8 x 15¼ in. (58 x 38.6 cm.)
Provenance
Eleanor Doorly.
with Anthony d'Offay, London, where purchased in March 1982.
Literature
Design, May 1937.
Cahiers d'art, January-February 1938.
Saturday Book, December 1943.
M. Eates, Paul Nash, Paintings, Drawings and Illustrations, London, 1948, pp. 55, 64, 353.
A. Bertram, Paul Nash, The Portrait of an Artist, London, 1955, pp. 101 and 243, pl. 20.
M. Eates, Paul Nash 1889-1946, London, 1973, p. 129.
A. Causey, Paul Nash, Oxford, 1980, no. 920, p. 440, pl. 320.
Exhibited
London, Redfern Gallery, Watercolours, Drawings, Collages and Objects by Paul Nash, April 1937, no. 19.
Paris, Galerie Beaux-Arts, Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme, January 1938, no. 154.
Cambridge, Gordon Fraser Gallery, Oils, Watercolours and Exhibits by Paul Nash, July 1939, no. 11.
New York, American-British Art Centre, 1942 (catalogue not traced). London, Arts Council, Tate Gallery, Paul Nash A Memorial Exhibition, March-May 1948, no. 115.
London, Anthony d'Offay, British Drawings and Watercolours 1890-1940, January-March 1982, no. 46.
Special notice
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