Lot 24
  • 24

Paul Nash

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Paul Nash
  • No. 2, The Parade
  • signed and variously inscribed with colour notes
  • pencil and watercolour
  • 28 by 39cm.; 11 by 15¼in.

Provenance

Paul Nash Trustees
Hamet Gallery, London
Alexander Postan
Anthony d'Offay, London

Exhibited

London, Redfern Gallery, Paul Nash (1), April 1935, cat. no.25;
Hamet Gallery, London, Paul Nash 1889-1946, Drawings and Watercolours (1), May 1973, cat. no.48.

Literature

Margot Eates, Paul Nash, Master of the Image, John Murray, London, 1973, p.61;
Andrew Causey, Paul Nash, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1980, illustrated pl.530, cat. no.845.

Condition

The work is on wove paper and has not been laid down. The sheet has been adhered to the backboard by adhesive tabs along the upper edge. There are a few scattered spots of surface staining across the sheet. Held under glass in a simple wooden frame and presented with a cream mount. The picture is unexamined out of frame. Please telephone the department on 020 7293 5381 if you have any questions regarding the present work.
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Catalogue Note

Painted in 1935.

The title refers to the address in Swanage where Nash lived in 1935.