Industrial Landscape (with smoke)

Details

PRUNELLA CLOUGH (1919-1999)
Industrial Landscape (with smoke)
signed 'Clough' (lower right)
oil on canvas
9 x 12 in. (22.9 x 30.5 cm.)
Painted in 1950.

Provenance

with Sandra Lummis Fine Art, London, where purchased by the present owner.

Exhibited

London, St George’s Gallery, 1950, catalogue not traced.
London, Gimpel Fils, 1950, catalogue not traced.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

Frances Spalding notes, that the present work marks the beginning of Clough's shift in interest away from the activities of the fishing industry at Lowestoft to urban and industrial scenes.

We are very grateful to Frances Spalding and Annely Juda Fine Art for their assistance in preparing this catalogue entry.

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