
Penny Day
Head of UK and Ireland
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PROVENANCE:
Harold Stanley Ede
Gifted by the above to Oleg Polunin, 1957
Thence by family descent to the present owner
The single-masted vessels rigged fore and aft that Wallis depicts here are known as Sloops or Cutters.
Harold Stanley 'Jim' Ede, was one of the 20th Century's most notable advocates of modern art in Britain whose extensive collection formed what is now the Kettle's Yard Collection, Cambridge. Oleg Polunin was an English Botanist, author of several botanical texts and long-serving teacher at Charterhouse School in Surrey.