Paul Nash (1889-1946) Objects on the sand Signed in pencil Watercolour and pencil with coloured...

Paul Nash (1889-1946)

Objects on the sand

Signed in pencil

Watercolour and pencil with coloured chalk

35 x 45.5cm

Provenance:

Leicester Galleries, London, May-June 1938 (10)

Collection of Edward James 1938

Redfern Gallery, London

The Mayor Gallery Ltd., London, No. 2487

The Collection of the late Dr. Peter Mangold

Exhibited:

Probably Redfern Gallery (51) 1935 as Shore

New York World's Fair 1939, No. 802

Literature:

Andrew Causey, Paul Nash 1980, No. 846, ill. pl.251

This work was painted in 1935 and represented a new direction for the artist. He had started to take an interest in the coast with his views painted at Rye in the early 1930s but in this composition his work becomes more surreal, with the strong shadows giving the found objects a monumental, even sculptural stature. Nash planned to include this work in what later became the memorial volume and returned to this theme on a number of occasions