Window (The Blue Sea)

Details

Mary Potter (1900-1981)
Window (The Blue Sea)
oil on canvas
27 x 31 in. (68.6 x 78.7 cm.)
Painted in 1960.

Provenance

Purchased at the 1961 exhibition, and by descent.

Exhibited

London, Leicester Galleries, Exhibition of Works by Mary Potter, April 1961, no. 29.
London, Fine Art Society, Mary Potter, July 1998, no. 27, as 'The Blue Sea', 1958.

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Lot Essay

In 1957, Mary Potter house-swopped with Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, her friends in Aldeburgh, and she moved into their home on the sea front, Crag House, and they moved into The Red House (see lot 49).

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