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Lot 171
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Edward Burra

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Edward Burra
  • The Loaf
  • signed
  • watercolour and gouache
  • 58.5 by 80cm.; 23 by 31½in.
  • Executed in 1964-5.

Provenance

Lefevre Gallery, London
Gerald C. Corcoran by whom gifted to a Private Collection, London

Exhibited

London, The Lefevre Gallery, Watercolours by Edward Burra, 6th - 26th May 1965, cat. no.14;
London, Hayward Gallery, Edward Burra, 1st August - 29th September 1985, cat. no.119.

Literature

William Chappell (ed.), Edward Burra: A Painter Remembered by His Friends, Andre Deutsch, in association with the Lefevre Gallery, London, 1982, p.34, illustrated;
Andrew Causey, Edward Burra, Complete Catalogue, Phaidon, Oxford, 1985, cat. no.307, illustrated.

Condition

The sheet is fully laid down to a backing card, with deckled edges throughout. Pin holes are apparent in the top corners. There are very minor signs of slight surface dirt and surface matter, with a slight possible surface scratch running diagonally in the centre right of the composition, only visible upon extremely close inspection. This excepting the work appears in excellent original condition. Housed behind glass in a thick gilt frame. Please telephone the department on +44 (0) 207 293 6424 if you have any questions regarding the present work.
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