Lot Essay
The present work is from a series which Nash worked on at Cleeve Hill in Kent during 1944-45. Causey notes, 'In his landscape watercolours in 1944-45 Nash worked quickly, in terms of gradation and intensity of colour, and with little structural framework. The final Maddams landscape of 1943-44 and the ones from Cleeve Hill of 1944-45 hark back to the most fluent and vital landscapes of 1919-21' (see A. Causey, Paul Nash, Oxford, 1980, p. 324).