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PAUL NASH (BRITISH 1889-1946), SILBURY HILL
英国
2023年10月04日 开拍 / 2023年10月02日 截止委托
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PAUL NASH (BRITISH 1889-1946) SILBURY HILL Watercolour and pencil Signed (lower right) 38.5 x 57cm (15 x 22? in.) Executed in 1938. Provenance: Private Collection, C. Allsopp, by whom sold Christie's, London, Modern British Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture, 20 March 1970, lot 180 Agnews, London (by 1971) Private Collection, Harold Riley Christie's, London, 20th Century British Art & Irish Art, 19 November 2004, lot 97, where purchased by Robert Kime ? Exhibited: Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northern Arts Gallery, Paul Nash 1889-1946, September-October, 1971, no. 34 London, Tate Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain, Paul Nash Paintings and Watercolours, November-December 1975, no. 175 (loaned by Harold Riley) Literature: Andrew Causey, Exhibition Catalogue, Paul Nash 1889-1946, Newcastle, Northern Arts Gallery, 1971, p. 15, no. 34 pl. 12 Andrew Causey, Paul Nash, Oxford, 1980, pp. 265-6, cat no. 952, pl. 312 ? Silbury Hill, located near Avebury in Wiltshire is the largest artificial mound of its kind in Europe. It is believed to have been completed around 2400BC and is similar in scale to the pyramids in Egypt. The purpose and significance of the mound are unknown and remain the subject of much speculation. Given Nash's fascination with pre-historic sites and the spiritual qualities of the English landscape, it is unsurprising that Silbury Hill was of interest to him. Nash first visited Silbury Hill and the nearby stones at Avebury in July 1933 whilst on holiday in Marlborough. According to Ruth Clarke, who travelled with him, Nash was 'excited and fascinated' by the landscape which appealed to his 'sensitiveness to magic and the sinister beauty of monsters' (cited in Andrew Causey, Paul Nash Landscape and the Life of Objects, 2013). The ladder laid against the hill in the present work was a figment of Nash's imagination which derived from his interest in the idea of something rising out of the earth or up from the water and creating a new form above ground. A postcard found in Nash's collection depicts a ladder inside a pit at the excavation of Maiden Castle leading upwards from the ground beneath. This postcard alongside the watercolour of Silbury Hill, is discussed by Andrew Causey in his 1980 publication on the artist:.: 'Silbury, as might be expected, intrigued Nash: its clear, plain, and - to Nash - symbolic shape was both palpable and inscrutable. In the oil painting Silbury Hill [Causey no. 880] he hinted at its symbolical meaning, its special, reserved ambience, with the closed gate and the pyramidal tumulus beyond, while constructing at the same time elaborate formal congruences of triangles within the over-all design. In the slightly later watercolour [the present work] he revealed a little more of his reaction to the hill's shape by adding a ladder leaning against the mound in front of it. This was no more than a now familiar Nash image, but there could be special interest in this if the idea was suggested by a postcard he had of Maiden Castle [Causey pl. 313]. It is not just that both are sites of ancient occupation, but that the postcard and watercolour are complementary images: in one the ladder comes up out of a dark pit, in the other it seems to continue its journey up the side of the hill; the sequence seems a characteristic product of Nash's mind' (see A. Causey, Paul Nash, Oxford, 1980, p. 265). Condition Report: Unexamined out of glazed frame. Appears to be in good original condition. Condition Report Disclaimer

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