Live Auction 15480Modern British Art Day Sale
Paul Nash (1889-1946)
Lot 175 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MARY H.D. SWIFT

Paul Nash (1889-1946)

Laocoön

Closed20 June 2018

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GBP 25,000

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Paul Nash (1889-1946)
Laocoön
signed 'Paul Nash' (lower right)
pencil, watercolour, coloured crayon and pastel
10 7/8 x 15¼ in. (27.6 x 38.8 cm.)
Executed in 1941.

probably Sir Michael Sadler.
Margaret Nash.
with Zwemmer Gallery, London, where purchased by Lord Eccles in 1956.
with Agnews, London, where purchased by the present owner.

Specialist note

Andrew Causey writes, 'Nash wrote on the back of a photograph 'Portrait of Sir Michael Sadler's Monster'. The picture was not in the catalogue of the [Leicester Galleries] 1944 exhibition of Sadler's pictures following his death, but nor were others that were sold by [Leicester Galleries] from his estate at that time. It is possible that the artist bought it back then or at Cheltenham' (A. Causey, Paul Nash, Oxford, 1980, p. 455).