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Paul Nash (British, 1889-1946) Sunset Eye, Study 5 29 x 40 cm. (11 3/8 x 15 3/4 in.) (Executed in 1945) image 1
Paul Nash (British, 1889-1946) Sunset Eye, Study 5 29 x 40 cm. (11 3/8 x 15 3/4 in.) (Executed in 1945) image 2
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Paul Nash
(British, 1889-1946)
Sunset Eye, Study 5 29 x 40 cm. (11 3/8 x 15 3/4 in.)

30 June 2021, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Paul Nash (British, 1889-1946)

Sunset Eye, Study 5
signed 'Paul Nash' (lower left) and titled 'Sunset Eye/Study 5' (verso)
watercolour
29 x 40 cm. (11 3/8 x 15 3/4 in.)
Executed in 1945

Footnotes

Provenance
With Arthur Tooth & Sons, London
Miss Ruth Clark, 1945
Margot Eates and Hartley Ramsden
Sale; Sotheby's, London, 20 November 1991, lot 155
Jeff Horwood, thence by family descent
Private Collection, U.K.

Exhibited
Oxford, Oxford Arts Club, Watercolours and Drawings by Paul Nash, February 1949, cat.no.29
London, Leicester Galleries, Paul Nash: A Private Collection of Watercolours and Drawings, May 1953, cat.no.20

Literature
Anthony Bertram, Paul Nash, The Portrait of an Artist, Faber and Faber, London, 1955, p.298
Margot Eates, Paul Nash, John Murray, London, 1973, p.87, p.137, pl.136 (col.ill)
Andrew Causey, Paul Nash, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1980, p.325, p.474, pl.394, cat.no.1260 (ill.b&w)

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