PAUL NASH (1889-1946)

Lot 13
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Lot 13 | PAUL NASH (1889-1946)
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£ 70 000 – 100 000
PAUL NASH (1889-1946)
Tortured Earth (Mud)
signed 'Paul Nash' (lower right), inscribed and numbered '3 Tortured earth' (on the reverse of the artist's support)
coloured chalk and watercolour on buff paper
10 x 14 in. (25.4 x 35.6 cm.)
Executed in 1917-18.




Provenance

Purchased by Charles Maresco Pearce at the 1918 exhibition, and by descent to the present owner.



Literature

G. Grigson, 'Paul Nash: A Metaphysical Artist', Listener, 1 April 1948.
M. Eates (ed.), Paul Nash: Paintings, Drawings and Illustrations, London, 1948, p. 47, no. 49, as 'Tortured Earth', and p. 63, no. 81, pl. 12, as 'Mud'.
M. Eates, Paul Nash: Master of the Image, London, 1973, p. 112, as 'Mud'.
A. Causey, Paul Nash, Oxford, 1980, pp. 68, 363, no. 196, as 'Mud', and p. 365, no. 213, as 'Tortured Earth'.



Exhibited

London, Leicester Galleries, Void of War: An Exhibition of Pictures by Lieut. Paul Nash, May 1918, no. 49, as 'Tortured Earth'.
London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Tate Gallery, Paul Nash: Memorial Exhibition, March - May 1948, no. 81.
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