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Lot 107

John N. Nash, British 1897-1977 -  'The Ever-damned Potatoes' from 'Rural Rides' by William...

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Lot 107

John N. Nash, 
British 1897-1977 -  
'The Ever-damned Potatoes' from 'Rural Rides' by William...

Price Realised: £1,443

Estimate: £700 - £1,000

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Lot 107

Description

John N. Nash
British 1897-1977 -  

'The Ever-damned Potatoes' from 'Rural Rides' by William Cobbett, 1930;  

ink and gouache on paper, 13.6 x 10.5 cm (ARR) 

Provenance: 
with New Grafton Gallery, London (according to the label attached to the reverse of the frame); 
Private Collection, purchased from the above 

Exhibited: 
New Grafton Gallery, London, London, 1981 and 1999, cat.78 and cat.64 respectively (according to the labels attached to the reverse of the frame) 

Note: 
'Rural Rides' was first published in the 1820s and describes political reformer William Cobbett's 'actual observations of rural conditions'. Nash had a keen interest in nature and botany, and the English countryside was a frequent subject in his work, so it is apt that in the 1930s he created illustrations for a new edition of the book. 


Alongside his brother and renowned artist Paul Nash, John Nash was commissioned as an official war artist in WWI. He was also a close contemporary of artists such as Eric Ravilious, Cedric Morris, Dora Carrington and Edward Bawden.
Other works on this theme are in public collections including The Courtauld, Tate Britain and the Imperial War Museum in London, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Major retrospectives of Nash's work were held at the Royal Academy, London in 1967 and the Towner Eastbourne in 2021. 

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