Dance Hall

Details

Edward Burra (1905-1976)
Dance Hall
stamped with signature 'E.J. Burra' (lower left)
ink and wash
22 x 17¾ in. (50.8 x 45 cm.)
Executed in 1929-30.

Provenance

with Lefevre Gallery, London.
with Hamet Gallery, London, where purchased by Mrs D. Lambton, October 1970.
Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 29 June 2011, lot 62, where purchased by the present owner.

Literature

A. Causey, Edward Burra Complete Catalogue, Oxford, 1985, n.p., no. 34, illustrated.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

‘Although he [Burra] frequently attended the ballet and the opera, he did not depict these salubrious venues, but instead, like Walter Sickert, he was drawn to paint the baser music halls and strip-bars. In 1928 he visited dance and music halls in Paris such as the Bal Nègre and the bals musettes in the Rue de Lappe' (S. Martin, ‘Painting the stage and screen: Burra and performance’, exhibition catalogue, Edward Burra, Chichester, Pallant House Gallery, 2012, p. 109).

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