Charleston

Details

Edward Burra (1905-1976)
Charleston
signed 'Burra' (lower centre)
ink
10 x 8 ½ in. (25.4 x 21.5 cm.)
Executed in 1936.

Provenance

with Mercury Gallery, London, where purchased by the present owner, November 1983.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Edward Burra, London, Hayward Gallery, 1985, p. 46, no. 133, illustrated.

Exhibited

London, Hayward Gallery, Edward Burra, August - September 1985, no. 133: this exhibition travelled to Southampton, City Art Gallery, October - November 1985; Leeds, City Art Gallery, December 1985 - January 1986; and Norwich, Castle Museum, January - February 1986.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

‘We went to the Savoy dance hall the other night my dear you would go mad Ive never in my life seen such a display…Ive never seen such wonderful dancing they also had an initiation ceremony in which all the men had to crawl under a row of men’s legs and be beaten with a stick going through, and the women had to be twirled round ten times it was most extraordinary’

(Edward Burra quoted in an undated letter (late 1933) to Barbara Ker-Seymer, cited in exhibition catalogue, Edward Burra, London, Hayward Gallery, 1985, p. 109).

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