Landscape of the Toad's Mouth Rock

Details

Paul Nash (1889-1946)
Landscape of the Toad's Mouth Rock
inscribed 'for Richard Seddon/unfamiliar aspect of a familiar Monster' (lower right)
pencil, crayon and watercolour on buff paper
7 x 10 in. (17.8 x 25.4 cm.)
Executed in 1943.

Provenance

with Dr Richard Seddon, 1943, by whom given to the present owner.

Literature

A. Causey, Paul Nash, Oxford 1980, p. 461, no. 1147.

Exhibited

Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery, A Supplementary Collection to the Paul Nash Memorial Exhibition, June 1948, no. 3.

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Lot Essay

Landscape of the Toad's Mouth Rock was drawn at Hathersage, Derbyshire, while Nash was staying with Richard Seddon in Sheffield after visiting his own retrospective at Temple Newsam House, Leeds. He exchanged the work for a drawing by Seddon (see Causey loc. cit).

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