Plough: into the Sun

Details

Claude Rogers (1907-1979)
Plough: into the Sun
signed and dated 'C. Rogers 59' (lower left)
oil on canvas
25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2 cm.)

Provenance

Sir Edwin Herbert, by whom purchased at the 1960 exhibition.
Lord Tangley.

Literature

The Times, 7 March 1960, p. 3.
H. Shipp, Apollo, April 1960.
J. Pery, The Affectionate Eye The Life of Claude Rogers, Bristol, 1995, pp. 171-172, pl. XXVI.

Exhibited

London, Leicester Galleries, Claude Rogers, March 1960, no. 23.
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Claude Rogers Paintings and Drawings 1927 - 1973, April 1973, no. 58: this exhibition travelled to Birmingham, City Art Gallery, May - June 1973; Reading, Museum and Art Gallery, June - July 1973; Southampton, City Art Gallery, August - September 1973; Bradford, City Art Gallery, September - October 1973 and Sheffield, Mappin Art Gallery, November 1973.
London, Gallerie Aziza, British Country Life, November 1975, catalogue not traced.

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Lot Essay

The critic and author, Horace Shipp, wrote in Apollo in April 1960, reviewing the Leicester Galleries exhibition 'The results are excellent. Rogers' normal landscape art can be movingly lovely, as witness the Plough: into the Sun in this exhibition ... In these pictures of a natural phenomenon which has stirred his imagination and given to his hand a subject spelling freedom of brushstroke and rhythmic composition, he has achieved something in the romantic yet literal English tradition where truth and beauty meet'.

The Times art critic writing on 7 March 1960 described the 'beautiful, rich autumn twilight' and the 'suggestion of mystery' of the present work (see J. Pery, loc. cit.).

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