Live Auction 784920th Century British & Irish Art
Mary Potter (1900-1981)
Lot 50

Mary Potter (1900-1981)

Window (The Blue Sea)

Closed27 May 2010

Price Realised

GBP 15,000

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Mary Potter (1900-1981)
Window (The Blue Sea)
oil on canvas
27 x 31 in. (68.6 x 78.7 cm.)
Painted in 1960.

Purchased at the 1961 exhibition, and by descent.

Specialist note

In 1957, Mary Potter house-swopped with Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, her friends in Aldeburgh, and she moved into their home on the sea front, Crag House, and they moved into The Red House (see lot 49).