Industrial Landscape

细节

Edward Burra (1905-1976)
Industrial Landscape
stamped with signature 'E.J.Burra' (lower right)
watercolour and bodycolour
25 x 37 in. (63.5 x 94 cm.)
Executed in 1973.

来源

with Lefevre Gallery, London, where purchased by the present owner in November 1995.

出版

A. Causey, Edward Burra Complete Catalogue, Oxford, 1985, no. 390, illustrated.

展览

London, Lefevre Gallery, Edward Burra, April - May 1982, no. 9, illustrated.

注意事项

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拍品专文

Discussing Burra's productive 'last phase', Angus Stewart (exhibition catalogue, Edward Burra, London, Olympia, 2001, p. vi) comments, 'During his last years Burra became more playful, carefree and flippant, though still careful that his technical performance should be meticulous. He painted landscapes that rolled across the paper like the waves of sound in a pastoral symphony. There is in these works an absurd reduction of fact, allied to an active subterranean distortion. Nothing is as it was, but all is as it should be. Here, the painter's artistry creates its own truth. Burra's humour tipped and spluttered, unseating natural phenomena, giving it a fresh impetus, and, by implication, rebuking those who see the land as passive'.