Landscape

Paul Nash (1889 - 1946)

Oil on canvas

c.1926-1927
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  • About the work
    Location
    Country: Sweden
    City: Stockholm
    Place: British Embassy
  • About the artist
    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.
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  • Details
    Title
    Landscape
    Date
    c.1926-1927
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    height: 63.00 cm, width: 76.00 cm
    Acquisition
    Purchased from Leicester Galleries, August 1954
    Inscription
    br: PN (Monogram)
    Provenance
    Collection of architect and town planner Lionel Gordon Baliol Brett (later 4th Viscount Esher; 1913-2004); from whom purchased by the Leicester Galleries, London; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in August 1954
    GAC number
    2835