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EDWARD BURRA (1905-1976)

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£ 70 000
Auction dateClassic
22.03.2023 13:00UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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ID 922760
Lot 184 | EDWARD BURRA (1905-1976)
EDWARD BURRA (1905-1976)

Picking a Quarrel

stamped with signature 'E.J. Burra' (lower right)

watercolour and gouache on paper

30 1/2 x 52 1/2 in. (77.5 x 133.4 cm.)

Executed in 1968-69.





Provenance

with Lefevre Gallery, London.

Lady Ritchie of Dundee (the artist's estate), her sale; Sotheby's, London, 3 July 2002, lot 302.

with Crane Kalman Gallery, London, where purchased by the present owner in March 2004.



Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Recent Works by Edward Burra, London, Lefevre Gallery, 1969, n.p., no. 8, illustrated.

A. Causey, Edward Burra: Complete Catalogue, Oxford, 1985, no. 348, illustrated.

Exhibition catalogue, British Landscape Painting in the Twentieth Century, London, Crane Kalman Gallery, 2004, n.p., exhibition not numbered, illustrated.

J. Stevenson, Edward Burra: Twentieth Century Eye, London, 2007, p. 384, as 'Machines Quarrelling'.

S. Martin, exhibition catalogue, Edward Burra, Chichester, Pallant House Gallery, 2011, p. 162, no. 148, illustrated.



Exhibited

London, Lefevre Gallery, Recent Works by Edward Burra, April - May 1969, no. 8.

London, Tate Gallery, Edward Burra, May - July 1973, no. 125, as 'Machines Quarrelling, 1967'.

London, Olympia Fine Art and Antiques Fair, Edward Burra: Loan Exhibition, February - March 2001, no. 17.

London, Crane Kalman Gallery, British Landscape Painting in the Twentieth Century, June - July 2004, exhibition not numbered.

London, Crane Kalman Gallery, Edward Burra, April - May 2008.

Chichester, Pallant House Gallery, Edward Burra, October 2011 - February 2012, no. 148.



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Artist:Edward Burra (1905 - 1976)
Applied technique:Painted, Watercolor
Art style:Modern art
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