Property Sold to Benefit Clifton College, Bristol
Paul Nash
The Blue Pool, Dorset
Auction Closed
November 26, 03:10 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Paul Nash
1889 - 1946
The Blue Pool, Dorset
signed Paul Nash (lower right) and variously inscribed with colour notes
watercolour and pencil on paper
unframed (sheet): 40 by 57.5cm.; 15¾ by 22¾in.
framed: 63.5 by 81cm.; 25 by 32in.
Executed in 1937-8.
We are grateful to Andrew Lambirth for his kind assistance with the cataloguing for the present work.
The Redfern Gallery, London, where acquired by
Cecil Taylor, April 1935, by whom bequeathed to Clifton College, Bristol
Somerset, Street, The Atkinson Gallery, The London Group 1913-1939, 1 - 28 February 1995, no. 30
Andrew Causey, Paul Nash, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1980, no. 895
The present work is one of three watercolours made by Paul Nash of a pond in the grounds of Furzebrook House, Wareham, Dorset. It was an old clay pit, hence the extraordinary colour of the water, and was mentioned by the artist in his book Dorset Shell Guide (1936), where he wrote it 'must be seen to be believed'.
Andrew Lambirth
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