Lot Essay
Causey (loc. cit.) records three drawings for this commission, a fourth drawing was designed and 'half-carried out' but its whereabouts are unknown
Details
Paul Nash (1889-1946)
Illustration for William Blake's 'Tiriel': 'The Cry was Great in Tiriel's Palace'
signed lower left Nash, pencil, brush, pen and black ink heightened with white
8 x 11in. (20 x 28cm.)
Executed in 1917
Illustration for William Blake's 'Tiriel': 'The Cry was Great in Tiriel's Palace'
signed lower left Nash, pencil, brush, pen and black ink heightened with white
8 x 11in. (20 x 28cm.)
Executed in 1917
Literature
A. Bertram, Paul Nash The Portrait of an Artist, London, 1955, p.128
Ed. C.C. Abbott and A. Bertram, Poet and Painter Being the Correspondence between Gordon Bottomley and Paul Nash 1910-1946, Oxford, 1955, p.p.94, 96, 100-1
M. Eates, Paul Nash The Master of the Image, London, 1973, p.112
A. Causey, Paul Nash, Oxford, 1980, no.136, p.p.63, 359, pl.65
Ed. C.C. Abbott and A. Bertram, Poet and Painter Being the Correspondence between Gordon Bottomley and Paul Nash 1910-1946, Oxford, 1955, p.p.94, 96, 100-1
M. Eates, Paul Nash The Master of the Image, London, 1973, p.112
A. Causey, Paul Nash, Oxford, 1980, no.136, p.p.63, 359, pl.65
Exhibited
London, Hamet Gallery, Paul Nash 1889-1946, March 1970, no.4, where purchased by the present owner