Bloody Foreland VII, Co. Donegal

Details

Edward Bawden, R.A. (1903-1989)
Bloody Foreland VII, Co. Donegal
signed 'Edward Bawden' (lower right)
watercolour and bodycolour
18¾ x 21¾ in. (47.6 x 55.2 cm.)

Provenance

Jean Wans, cousin of the artist's wife, Charlotte, and by descent.

Exhibited

London, Fine Art Society, Edward Bawden, November 1968, no. 25.

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Lot Essay

The present lot is one of a series of seven watercolours that Bawden painted whilst in Ireland with his wife in 1967-68. Whilst in conversation with Halina Graham he mentioned another series of watercolours, Horn Head V, Donegal, Eire, 'I was working at full pressure in the morning and completing it on the next morning, and working on another watercolour in the afternoons. The summer was exceptionally dry' (see J. Howes, Edward Bawden, A Retrospective Survey, Bath, 1988, p. 99).

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