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Property from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Sold to Benefit Future Acquisitions

Paul Nash

Environment for Two Objects

Auction Closed

June 28, 02:51 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Sold to Benefit Future Acquisitions

Paul Nash

1889 - 1946

Environment for Two Objects 


signed Paul Nash (lower left)

oil on canvas 

unframed: 51 by 76cm.; 20 by 30in.

framed: 74 by 100.5cm.; 29 by 39½in

Executed in 1936-37.

Ernest Brown and Phillips, by 1946
Valerie Cooper, by 1947
The Leicester Galleries, London, by 1948
Alfred Hecht, 1954, by whom gifted to the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in 1959
London, Rosenberg and Helft, British Contemporary Art, 21 January  20 February 1937, no. 14
London, The Leicester Galleries, New Paintings by Paul Nash, May - June 1938, no. 39
London, Redfern Gallery, 1944-54
Paris, Musée d’art Moderne, Exhibition of International Modern Art (organised by UNESCO), November - December 1946, no. 38
London, Tate, Paul Nash Memorial Exhibition, 17 March - 2 May 1948, no. 43 (as Environment of Two Objects)
London, Redfern Gallery, The Redfern Gallery Coronation Exhibition: Contemporary British Paintings, 1953, no. 99  (as Environment of Two Objects)
London, Tate, Paul Nash Paintings and Watercolours, 12 November - 28 December 1975, no. 158
Myfanwy Evans, 'The Significance of Paul Nash', Architectural Review, September 1947, vol. 102, no. 609, illustrated p. 79
Geoffrey Grigson, ‘Paul Nash, A Metaphysical Artist’, The Listener, 1 April 1948, vol. 39, no. 1001, p. 548
Margot Eates, published letter, The Listener, 8 April 1948, vol. 39, no. 1002, p. 585
Margot Eates (ed.), Paul Nash: Paintings, Drawings and Illustrations, Lund Humphries, London, 1948, p. 32
Anthony Bertram, Paul Nash - The Portrait of an Artist, Faber and Faber, London, 1955, pp. 245, 286, illustrated pl. 19b
Beaverbrook Art Gallery: Paintings, University Press of New Brunswick, Fredericton, 1959, p. 53
Margot Eates, Paul Nash, Master of the Image, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1973, p. 67, 101, 128, illustrated pl. 81
Andrew Causey, Paul Nash, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1980, no.877, illustrated pl. 334, p. 288
James King, Interior Landscapes A Life of Paul Nash, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London, 1987, p. 130, p. 186, p. 192, illustrated pl. 34
Pennie Denton, Seaside Surrealism: Paul Nash in Swanage, Peveril Press, Swanage, 2002, p67, p75, illustrated pl. 8