The Landscape after Frost

Details

Paul Nash (1889-1946)
The Landscape after Frost
signed and dated 'Paul/Nash/45' (lower right), inscribed 'The Landscape after Frost' (on the reverse)
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour
15 x 22¼ in. (38.1 x 56 cm.)

Provenance

with Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, 1945.
Vincent Massey, 1945.

Literature

A. Bertram, Paul Nash The Portrait of an Artist, London, 1955, p. 284.
M. Eates, Paul Nash 1889-1946, London, 1973, p. 136, pl. 142.
A. Causey, Paul Nash, Oxford, 1980, no. 1233, p. 471.

Exhibited

London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, New Watercolours by Paul Nash, April 1945, no. 4.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The present work shows the view from Cleeve Hill in Gloucestershire, where the artist and his wife stayed at 'The Rising Sun' in 1944-45, over Christmas and New Year. It is one of a set of 16 watercolours which were delivered to Arthur Tooth on 23 February 1945.

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