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Paling (formerly 'A Tent overhung with Trees')

Maker

(artist)
1889-1946

Title

Paling (formerly 'A Tent overhung with Trees')

Date of Production

1924-1925

Medium

graphite and watercolour on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 56.5 cm
Width: 38.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1932.SC.40

Mode of Acquisition

Samuel Courtauld, gift, 1932 (16 December)

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords



Provenance

Ernest, Brown & Phillips (aka Leicester Galleries) (London), November 1928; purchased there by Samuel Courtauld (1876-1947), 24 November 1928 (£21); Courtauld Gift 1932

Exhibition History

Modern movement in British watercolour painting, Norwich Castle Museum, 1957-58 (Dec.-Feb.)

Brothers in arms: John and Paul Nash and the aftermath of the Great War, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, 19/07/2014-14/09/2014

Drawings and Engravings from the Courtauld Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, December 1959-April 1960 ...More

British Artists, Tokyo, 31/10/1931

Leicester Galleries, London, 1928 (November) ...Less

Literature

Causey, Andrew, Paul Nash, Oxford 1980
no. 448, p. 388
dated 1924, and exhibited Leicester Galleries in this year

Eates, Margot, Paul Nash the master of the image 1889-1946, London 1973
p. 121
dated circa 1928

Cooper, Douglas, The Courtauld Collection, London 1954
no. 168 ...More

Eates, Margot, Paul Nash. Paintings, drawings and illustrations, London 1949
p. 49 under no. 25

Home House Trustees, A catalogue of the pictures and other works of art at Home House, 20 Portman Square, London, London 1935
p. 43, no. 40 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Verso, lower left corner: "HAND MADE" and at lower right corner: "J WHATMA[...]".

Inscription: Recto (within the drawing): colour notes all in graphite at upper centre "In", below that "Gte" and lower right "DKer"; lower left corner, graphite, signed twice: "Paul Nash". Verso: lower centre, graphite, second line partly crossed out and partly underlined: “2 / no line incised”; lower right, graphite, circled: “21N” and below that “30 x 22 […]bat / 80 Bak [sic] plain” and below that “Woodlands”.

Collector's mark: none.

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