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PAUL NASH Orchard, Woods and Hills, Gloucestershire.
Watercolor, chalk and pencil on buff paper, 1943. 200x280 mm; 7 7/8x11 inches. Signed in pencil, lower left recto.
Provenance: H. J. Paterson, 1943; Roland, Browse and Delbanco, London, with the label; Dr. Lewson, London; Sotheby's, London, December 15, 1971, lot 84; Hamet Gallery, London, May 1973; David Coates, London; Christie's, London, June 13, 1986, lot 244; Sotheby's, London, March 4, 1987, lot 202; private collection, New York.
Exhibited: Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ltd., London, "Paul Nash," October 1943, number 3895, with the label; Hamet Gallery, London, May 1973, number 63.
Published: Causey, Paul Nash, Oxford, 1980, page 462, number 1158.
The current work on paper is a view of Madams, the countryside home of Nash's friends Charles and Clare Neilson, located in Gloucestershire. Nash (1889-1946) created several works from his time at Madams, writing to his wife, "This is an enchanting place. A perfect situation, the little house perched up overlooking the hills and valleys. You approach it down a winding drive through a hazel wood but it opens into a clearing with a sweet garden and orchard with the rather mountainous looking Malverns massed on the horizon" (Causey, page 296).
