Washing Drying on the Beach, Nice

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Born in Kensington, London, Paul Nash studied at the Slade School of Art (1910–11). He served with the Artists’ Rifles during the First World War and in 1917 he was appointed an Official War Artist, acclaimed for his paintings of shattered landscapes in France and Flanders. In the 1920s Nash moved to Rye, Sussex, painting bleak and ominous landscapes of the area. He began travelling abroad, visiting France regularly. In 1931 he visited New York, Washington and Pittsburgh. He founded the Unit One group in 1933 and participated in the ‘International Surrealist Exhibition’ (London, 1936). In the Second World War Nash became an Official War artist to the Air Ministry and Ministry of Information. He died in Hampshire in 1946.

Places

France, Cote d'Azur

Subjects

topography, genre, seascape/coastal scene, beach, woman, laundry, washing line, child

Materials & Techniques

photograph (as object name), black & white photograph

Artist

Paul Nash (1889 - 1946)

Title

Washing Drying on the Beach, Nice

Portfolio Title

A Private World

Edition

10/45

Date

1933-4; published 1978

Medium

Black and white photograph

Acquisition

Purchased from Robert Self Gallery, August 1978

GAC number

14233