拍品 22THE PROPERTY OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND
Paul Nash (1889-1946)
Mineral Objects
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The objects depicted were based on those commonly found on the shore of Kimmeridge Bay, Dorset and locally known as 'coal money'. These were connected with the Roman shale industry and Nash would have seen them in Dorchester Museum. He described them in his Dorset Shell Guide, London, 1936, pp.16-17.
Nash wrote of the compositions from 1935 'These groups are impressive as forms opposed to their surroundings, both by virtue of their actual composition of lines and masses and planes, directions and volume; and in the irrational sense, their suggestion of a super-reality. They are dramatic, also, however as symbols of their antiquity, as hallowed remnants of an almost unknown civilization'. (see A. Bertram, loc. cit.).
Nash wrote of the compositions from 1935 'These groups are impressive as forms opposed to their surroundings, both by virtue of their actual composition of lines and masses and planes, directions and volume; and in the irrational sense, their suggestion of a super-reality. They are dramatic, also, however as symbols of their antiquity, as hallowed remnants of an almost unknown civilization'. (see A. Bertram, loc. cit.).