A private road

Details

Edward Bawden, R.A. (1903-1989)
A private road
signed and dated 'Edward Bawden/1948' (lower right)
ink and watercolour
17¾ x 22¼ in. (45 x 56.5 cm.)

Provenance

Purchased by Mrs Stella Sharpe at the 1949 exhibition.

Literature

A. Powers, 'At Odds with England', Country Life, 23 July 1992, p. 86, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Tribute to Edward Bawden, London, Fine Art Society, 1992, pp. 39, 28, no. 14, illustrated.

Exhibited

London, Leicester Galleries, Edward Bawden, February 1949, no. 22. London, Fine Art Society, Tribute to Edward Bawden, July 1992, no. 14: this exhibition travelled to Saffron Walden, Essex, Fry Art Gallery, August - September 1992.

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Lot Essay

Edward Bawden painted the Essex landscape in an unsentimental manner, as seen in the present lot. He painted his home county with an interest that was more concerned with capturing an exact and rational portrayal of the landscape, not a romantic interpretation of it. Bawden's curiosity for spiky-leaved plants in particular led him to write about his garden patch in letters to friends John Nash and Charles Mahoney (see lot 44).

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