17th Oct, 2023 10:00
Modern and Contemporary Art
46
Paul Nash (1889-1946)
Paul Nash (1889-1946)
'The Bay' (Postan W27)
wood engraving, special proof, signed and dated 'Paul Nash 1922' in ink l.r., inscribed with title l.l., inscribed 'Joanlet from Paul/Dymchurch 1922' u.l., and 'special proof' u.r.
sheet 14.5 x 20.5cm
A note from the vendor:
My mother was the youngest daughter of Arthur and Harriet Miles of Sellindge near Romney Marsh in Kent. My grandfather, Arthur Miles, who farmed and bred horses, allowed my mother, then aged sixteen, to drive her pony and trap round the neighbouring countryside. One day in 1921, visiting friends in Dymchurch, my mother met Paul Nash and his wife Margaret (Bunty) who had rented a cottage there.
Nash, while still recovering from a serious illness, was designing scenes for two plays by his friend Gordon Bottomley ('King Lear's Wife' and 'Gruach') and he asked my mother to help him build the models. A pin-hole camera was used to take photographs, and Nash gave my mother a small hand-made album decorated and inscribed 'Photographs of Two Scene Models designed and built by Paul Nash with the assistance of Joan Adeline Miles', which I still have.
In 1922, Nash gave my mother his pen and wash drawing 'The Shore', 1922, inscribed to her on the mount, and two 'special proofs' of two of his wood engravings, 'Dyke by the Road', 1922' and 'The Bay', 1922, inscribed to her on the margins.
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Sold for £3,200
Condition Report
Framed: 19.5 x 25.5cm
The paper is discoloured and is a mid to dark brown. Staining to the upper left corner of the sheet. The sheet has been stuck down and there is a 3.5cm crease line to the centre of the top margin. The black printed areas appear slightly thin and uneven in places, please see additional condition images. There is light surface dust and dirt trapped behind the glazing and the work has not been viewed out of the glazed frame.
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Auction: Modern and Contemporary Art, 17th Oct, 2023
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