Staverton Thicks

Details

John Northcote Nash, R.A. (1893-1977)
Staverton Thicks
signed 'John Nash' (lower left), signed again and inscribed 'John Nash RA/Wormingford Colchester Essex/Staverton Thicks' (on the artist's label attached to the frame)
oil on canvas
20 x 30 in. (50.8 x 76.2 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 27 March 1991, lot 96, where purchased by the present owner.

Literature

A. Freer, John Nash 'The delighted eye', Aldershot, 1993, p. 87, illustrated.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

Staverton Thicks is the primeval forest near Butley, in Suffolk. John Nash painted here in 1958-59, having moved to Suffolk in 1945. The inspiration of the East Anglia landscape was a continual thread throughout his work.

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