Pot Women

Details

EDWARD BURRA (1905-1976)
Pot Women
stamped 'E.J. Burra' (lower left)
watercolour and gouache on paper
21 3/4 x 30 in. (55.3 x 76.2 cm.)
Executed in 1952-54.

Provenance

with Lefevre Gallery, London, where purchased by the father of the present owners in 1977, and by descent.

Literature

A. Causey, Edward Burra Complete Catalogue, Oxford, 1985, n.p., no. 230, illustrated.

Exhibited

London, Lefevre Gallery, Recent Works by Edward Burra 1952-1954, April 1955, no. 8.
London, Tate Gallery, Edward Burra, May - July 1973, no. 97.

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

Pot Women was painted in 1952-54, a period between his reinterpretation of the Passion of Christ, such as his 1950-52 painting, Christ Mocked (University of Dundee), and his detailed flower pictures of 1955-57. Also painted at this time was Skeleton Party, circa 1952-54 (Tate, London), whose comically sinister dancing skeletons echo the grotesque anthropomorphism of these pot women.

We are very grateful to Professor Jane Stevenson for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.

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