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Christopher Wood

Pony and Trap, Ploaré, Brittany

Auction Closed

June 28, 02:51 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Christopher Wood

1901 - 1930

Pony and Trap, Ploaré, Brittany


pencil and oil on board

unframed: 53.5 by 64.5cm.; 21 by 25¼in.

framed: 70 by 81.5cm.; 27½ by 32in.

Executed in 1929-1930.


We are grateful to Robert Upstone, who is writing the catalogue raisonné on Christopher Wood, for his kind assistance in the cataloguing of the present work. 

Alex Reid & Lefevre, London
Redfern Gallery, London, where acquired by Leonard and Dorothy Elmhirst, 21 May 1947
Gifted to their daughter Ruth Ash in 1965, by whom gifted to The Dartington Hall Trust in 1986
Their sale, Sotheby's London, 15 November 2011, lot 3, where acquired by the present owner
London, Alex Reid & Lefevre, Memorial Exhibition of The Most Recent Paintings by Christopher Wood, April 1932, no. 10 (as Woman in Pony Cart) (probably)
London, The New Burlington Galleries, Christopher Wood, 3 March - 2 April 1938, no. 170
London, Redfern Gallery, Christopher Wood, 8 - 31 May 1947, no. 38
Dartington Hall, The Exhibition Gallery, An Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture 1900-1947, June 1947
Dartington Hall, Paintings, Sculpture, Furniture Belonging to Mr & Mrs Elmhirst, 1951, no. 13
Colchester, The Minories, Christopher Wood, 29 March - 15 April 1979, no. 31 (as Breton Woman on a Pony Cart 1929), illustrated p. 7, with Arts Council Tour to Durham Light Infantry Museum and Arts Centre, Durham, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne and Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Penzance, Newlyn Art Gallery, Christopher Wood: The Last Years, 28 October - 25 November 1989, no. 72 (as Breton Woman in a Pony Cart), with tour to The Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, The Glynn Vivian Arts Gallery, Swansea and Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
St Ives, Tate Gallery, Christopher Wood, A Painter Between Two Cornwalls, 16 November 1996 - 20 April 1997, no. 17, with tour to Musée des Beaux-Arts, Quimper
Eric Newton, Christopher Wood, Redfern Gallery, London, 1938, no. 383, illustrated p. 74