Pink Hyacinth

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Downing Street

Born in Kensington, London, Paul Nash studied at the Slade School of Art (1910–11). He served with the Artists’ Rifles during the First World War and in 1917 he was appointed an Official War Artist, acclaimed for his paintings of shattered landscapes in France and Flanders. In the 1920s Nash moved to Rye, Sussex, painting bleak and ominous landscapes of the area. He began travelling abroad, visiting France regularly. In 1931 he visited New York, Washington and Pittsburgh. He founded the Unit One group in 1933 and participated in the ‘International Surrealist Exhibition’ (London, 1936). In the Second World War Nash became an Official War artist to the Air Ministry and Ministry of Information. He died in Hampshire in 1946.

Places

Subjects

vase (as Subject), still life, London Group, hyacinth, flower, tree, garden, window, domestic interior, curtain

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Paul Nash (1889 - 1946)

Title

Pink Hyacinth

Date

1921

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 49.50 cm, width: 75.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Mayor Gallery, June 1963

Inscription

br: 1921 / Paul Nash

Provenance

Collection of the artist; by whom presented to De Lisle Trask in 1924; with Ernest Cooper; sold through Sotheby's, London, on 21 November 1962 (Lot 203); from which sale purchased by the Mayor Gallery; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in June 1963

GAC number

6142