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Rocks and Sand Dunes Oxwich Bay South Wales
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1940
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paper unique watercolour graphite
Rocks and Sand Dunes, Oxwich Bay, South Wales
support: 394 × 571 mm
Presented by the <a href="/search?gid=999999975" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Contemporary Art Society</a> 1940
<p><b>N05206</b> ROCKS AND SAND DUNES, SOUTH WALES, LLANGENETH <i>c.</i>
1939</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘John Nash’ b.l. and with colour notes, etc.
<br/>Pencil and watercolour, 15 1/2×22 1/2 (39·5×57·5).
<br/>Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1940.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> C.A.S., purchased 1940 from an unrecorded source.</p>
<p>On the back there is a label suggesting that this work was exhibited in one of the annual <i>Goupil Gallery <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/salon" title="Glossary definition for 'Salon'"><span>Salons</span></a></i>, but it has not been possible to trace this. Another <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/watercolour" title="Glossary definition for 'Watercolour'"><span>watercolour</span></a> of ‘Sand Dunes and Rocky Coast’ was exhibited at the Goupil Gallery, March–April 1939 (13; repr. <i>Studio</i>, CXVII, 1939, p.404).</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, II
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2004-10-07T00:00:00
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beach coast Oxwich Bay places rocky seascapes and coasts Swansea UK counties UK countries and regions UK natural features Wales