PRUNELLA CLOUGH | RIVER LANDSCAPE

Jim Cadbury Brown

Sale, Bonhams Bury St Edmunds, 3rd December 2009, lot 328

Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London where acquired by the present owner, 21st September 2010

Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery, Prunella Clough, 30^th September – 26^th October 1972, cat. no.7 (where lent by Mrs J. Cadbury Brown).

'Each painting is an exploration in unknown country. Or, as Manet said, it is like throwing oneself into the sea to learn to swim. Anything that the eye or the mind's eye sees with intensity and excitement will do for a start: a gasometer is as good as a garden, probably better; one paints what one knows.' (Prunella Clough, 1949)