詳情
JOHN NASH, R.A. (LONDON 1893-1977 COLCHESTER)
The black barn at Bottengoms, Essex, winter
pencil and oil paint on canvas board, squared for transfer
20 x 2334 in. (50.8 x 60.4 cm.)
來源
Joanna Clack.
Anonymous sale; Bonhams, Knightsbridge, 17 November 2015, lot 71, where purchased by the present owner.
展覽
London, New Grafton Gallery, catalogue not traced.
特別通告
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
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拍品專文

Nash’s Bottengoms studio in Essex looked out towards the barn shown in the present work. Situated just beyond the end of his garden, this barn became a familiar subject in his painting and here, Nash strikingly captures the building in just a few tones of oil paint, while the white ground of the board is left untouched for the surrounding snow and overcast sky. Fascinated with how the colour and light of snow transformed landscapes to become unfamiliar, Nash’s winter scenes are among the most distinctive of his oeuvre. Nash often complained of landscapes being too green during the other seasons, explaining, ‘whenever it snowed, I never wanted to paint it in full sunlight with all those blue shadows. I would wait until the skies had clouded over and the light had become dim. I would then dash out with my sketchbook. That dull light brought out all the colours. Brick walls seemed to glow, the lichen on the trees looked that much richer.’ (J. Nash quoted in A. Lambirth, John Nash: Artist & Countryman, Norwich, 2019, pp. 254-255).

We are very grateful to Andrew Lambirth for his assistance in preparing this catalogue entry.

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