Badbury Rings, Dorset

细节

Paul Nash (1889-1946)
Badbury Rings, Dorset
signed 'Paul Nash' (lower left) and inscribed 'Badbury Rings/(Dorset)' (on the reverse)
pencil and watercolour
11 x 15¼ in. (28 x 38.7 cm.)

来源

with Arthur Tooth & Sons, London.
The Hon. J.T. Roberts, by whom purchased at the 1948 exhibition, and by descent.

展览

London, Leicester Galleries, New Year Exhibition, January 1948, no. 4.

注意事项

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

拍品专文

The Dorset Shell Guide, which was published in 1936, involved Nash in much travelling, historical research, drawing and writing. His interest focused particularly on such places as Maiden Castle and Badbury Rings, fortresses that witnessed man's efforts to defend themselves against each other, but which are seen now repossessed by nature, and which speak for the emptiness of human endeavour (see A. Causey, op. cit, p. 271).