Lot 118
  • 118

Prunella Clough

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Description

  • Prunella Clough
  • landscape with cable
  • oil on canvas
  • 31 by 51cm.; 12ΒΌ by 20in.

Provenance

The New Art Centre, London, whence purchased subsequent to the 1960 exhibition, then by bequest to the present owner

Exhibited

London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Prunella Clough: a retrospective exhibition, September - October 1960, cat. no.74 (as Landscape with Cut Cable)

Condition

The canvas is unlined and is in good condition. There are areas of very light craquelure along the edges of the canvas where it wraps around the stretcher. There is no sign of retouching under ultra-violet light. Held in a wooden frame with a cream canvas cross section.
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Catalogue Note

Painted in 1957.