EDWARD WADSWORTH, A.R.A. (1889-1949) - photo 1
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EDWARD WADSWORTH, A.R.A. (1889-1949)

Lot 24
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Lot 24 | EDWARD WADSWORTH, A.R.A. (1889-1949)
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EDWARD WADSWORTH, A.R.A. (1889-1949)

Study for Cape of Good Hope

signed with monogram (lower right)

ink, watercolour, gouache and crayon on paper

13 x 9 7/8 in. (33 x 25.1 cm.)

Executed in 1914.





Provenance

A.J.A. Symons, London, and by descent to Julian Symons, until 1970.

with Anthony d'Offay, London, where purchased by the present owner in August 1989.



Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Vorticism and its Allies, London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, 1974, p. 83, no. 316.

Exhibition catalogue, Edward Wadsworth: Paintings, Drawings and Prints, London, P.&D. Colngahi & Co, 1974, n.p., no. 20, illustrated.

R. Cork, Vorticism and Abstract Art in the First Machine Age: Vol. II: Synthesis and Decline, London, 1976, p. 367, illustrated.

Exhibition catalogue, Origini dell' astrattismo verso altri orizzonti del reale, Milan, Palazzo Reale, 1979, n.p., no. 400, illustrated.

Exhibition catalogue, Abstraction: Toward a New Art, London, Tate Gallery, 1980, pp. 108-109, no. 391, illustrated.

Exhibition catalogue, Important English Drawings Relating to Cubism and Vorticism, London, Anthony d'Offay, 1986, n.p., no. 30, illustrated.

Exhibition catalogue, Futurismo e Futurismi, Venice, Palazzo Grassi, 1986, p. 315, exhibition not numbered, illustrated.

S. Compton, exhibition catalogue, British Art in the 20th Century: The Modern Movement, London, Royal Academy, 1987, n.p., exhibition not numbered, illustrated.

Exhibition catalogue, British Modernist Art: 1905-1930, New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1987, p. 97, no. 93, illustrated.

J. Lewison (ed.), exhibition catalogue, A Genius of Industrial England: Edward Wadsworth, Bradford, Cartwright Hall, 1989, pp. 13, 123, no. 12, illustrated.

B. Wadsworth, Edward Wadsworth: A Painter's Life, Salisbury, 1989, n.p., no. W/B 11.

J. Black, Edward Wadsworth: Form, Feeling and Calculation, The Complete Paintings and Drawings, London, 2005, p. 162, no. 61, illustrated.

M. Antliff and V. Greene (eds.), exhibition catalogue, The Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World, Durham, The Nasher Museum of Art, 2010, pp. 128, 189, no. 31, illustrated.



Exhibited

London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, Vorticism and its Allies, March - June 1974, no. 316.

London, P.&D. Colnaghi & Co, Edward Wadsworth: Paintings, Drawings and Prints, July - August 1974, no. 20.

New York, Davis & Long, Vorticism and Abstract Art in the First Machine Age, April 1977, no. 44.

Milan, Palazzo Reale, Origini dell' astrattismo verso altri orizzonti del reale, October 1979 - January 1980, no. 400.

London, Tate Gallery, Abstraction: Toward a New Art, February - April 1980, no. 391.

New Haven, Yale Centre for British Art, Blast: The British Answer to Futurism, April - June 1983, no. 19.

London, Anthony d'Offay, The Omega Workshops: Alliance and Enmity in English Art 1911-1920, January - March 1984, no. 109.

London, Anthony d'Offay, Important English Drawings Relating to Cubism and Vorticism, February - March 1986, no. 30.

Venice, Palazzo Grassi, Futurismo e Futurismi, May - October 1986, exhibition not numbered.

London, Royal Academy, British Art in the 20th Century: The Modern Movement, January - April 1987, exhibition not numbered: this exhibition travelled to Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, May - August 1987.

New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, British Modernist Art: 1905-1930, November 1987 - January 1988, no. 93.

Bradford, Cartwright Hall, A Genius of Industrial England: Edward Wadsworth, October 1989 - January 1990, no. 12.

Durham, The Nasher Museum of Art, The Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World, September 2010 - January 2011, no. 31: this exhibition travelled to Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, January - May 2011; and London, Tate Britain, June - September 2011.



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Applied technique:Crayon, Painted, Watercolor
Medium:Acrylic glass, Plastic
Art style:Modern art
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