Edward Burra

The artist
Lady Ritchie of Dundee
Lefevre Gallery, London

London, Lefevre Gallery, Edward Burra, Drawings from the 1920s and 1930s, 10th June 1993 - 16th July 1993, no.18, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue.

The sheet is sound and is slightly undulating. The sheet is tabbed to the mount in each of the corners in a double sided mount. The edges are deckled and are slightly dirty, notably in the upper corners. There are some old creases in the upper corners and there is an old small repaired tear along the upper edge (0.5cm long) and to the centre of of the bottom edge (approx. 1cm long). There are some scattered media spots and some minor spots of surface dirt otherwise in good original condition. Held in a painted wood frame under perspex on both sides; unexamined out of frame. If you have any further queries, please call the 20th Century British Art department on +44 (0) 207 293 6424.
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Executed circa 1930 - 1931, there is a pen and ink sketch of a man on the verso.