LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pencil and watercolour

Measurements:

16.54 in. (42.00 cm.) (height) by 21.26 in. (54.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'Eric Ravilious 1937' (lower centre)

Exhibited:

London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Recent Watercolours by Eric Ravilious, May - June 1939, no. 22. Eastbourne, Arts Council of Great Britain, Towner Art Gallery, Eric Ravilious: memorial exhibition, July - August 1948, no. 13: this exhibition travelled to Brighton, Museum and Art Gallery, September 1948.Colchester, The Minories, Eric Ravilious, January - February 1972, no. 32: this exhibition travelled to Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, March - April 1972; London, Morley Gallery, April - May 1972; Eastbourne, Towner Art Gallery, May - June 1972.

Literature:

F. Constable and S. Simon, The England of Eric Ravilious, Aldershot, 2003, no. 9, illustrated.A. Ullmann, S. Lawrence and C. Whittick (eds), Eric Ravilious: Landscape, Letters and Design, Upper Denby, 2008, p. 358, no. 21, illustrated.J. Russell, Ravilious in Pictures: Sussex and the Downs, Sparham, 2009, pp. 28-29, illustrated.J. Russell, Ravilious in Pictures: A Travelling Artist, Sparham, 2012, illustrated on the front cover. A. Powers, Eric Ravilious: Artist & Designer, Farnham, 2013, p. 103, no. 122, illustrated.

Provenance:

Purchased by the present owner's father at the 1939 exhibition.