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Lot 195

NASH (PAUL)
Shell-Mex House, FIRST EDITION, [Printed at the Curwen Press], 1933

29 March 2023, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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NASH (PAUL)

Shell-Mex House, FIRST EDITION, 9 photographic illustrations, several plans printed in red and black, publisher's boards, upper cover with colour lithograph after a design by Paul Nash, light soiling and spotting, 8vo, [Printed at the Curwen Press], 1933

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SCARCE. The lithographed cover of this small-format guide to the newly opened Shell-Mex building, printed by the Curwen Press, is taken from a coloured crayon drawing by Nash, who "illustrates the dramatic perspective of the building, built on the site of the old Hotel Cecil. His 'flint-clouds' echo many of his 1930s paintings" (Brian Webb and Peyton Skipwith, Paul Nash. John Nash. Design, 2006).

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