LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pencil and watercolour

Measurements:

17.72 in. (45.00 cm.) (height) by 20.98 in. (53.30 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'Eric Ravilious' (lower right)

Exhibited:

London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Eric Ravilious: Exhibition of Recent Watercolours, May - June 1939, possibly no. 21, as 'Early Morning on the East Coast'. Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery, Eric Ravilious: Exhibition of Water-Colours and Engravings, 1958, no. 93, as 'Bathing Machines'. Colchester, The Minories, Eric Ravilious 1903-1942, January - February 1972, no. 44, as 'Bathing Machines': this exhibition travelled to Oxford, The Ashmolean Museum, March - April 1972; London, The Morley Gallery, April - May 1972; and Eastbourne, Towner Art Gallery, May - June 1972. London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Ravilious, April - August 2015, exhibition not numbered, as 'Bathing Machines'.

Literature:

F. Constable, The England of Eric Ravilious, Aldershot, 2003, n.p., no. 36, as 'Bathing Machines', illustrated. A. Powers, Eric Ravilious: artist & designer, Farnham, 2013, p. 109, no. 131, illustrated. J. Russell, exhibition catalogue, Ravilious, London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2015, p. 133, exhibition not numbered, as 'Bathing Machines', illustrated.

Provenance:

with Leicester Galleries, London, where purchased by the present owner's father, and by descent.