Paul Nash (1899-1946)
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Paul Nash (1899-1946)

Landscape emerging, study no. 3

Details
Paul Nash (1899-1946)
Landscape emerging, study no. 3
signed with monogram (lower right)
charcoal and watercolour
11 x 15 in. (27.9 x 38.1 cm.)
Executed in 1945.
Provenance
R. C. Pritchard, 1945.
with Tooths, London.
Guy Dixon, 1952.
Literature
M. Eates, Paul Nash Paintings, Drawings and Illustrations, London, 1948, p. 59.
A. Bertram, Paul Nash. The Portrait of an Artist, London, 1955, p. 284.
A. Causey, Paul Nash, Oxford, 1980, p. 471, no. 1235, as 'Landscape Emerging'.
Exhibited
London, Tooths, New Watercolours by Paul Nash, April 1945, no. 14.
London, Tate Gallery, Paul Nash. Paintings and Watercolours, November 1975, no. 223.
London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Paul Nash Paintings, December 1976, no. 223.
Chichester, Pallant House Gallery, Flowers of Peace: British Art and Design in 1945, June - August 1995, not numbered.
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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).

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