Paul Nash (1889-1946)

This is the working drawing for Nostalgic Landscape, 1923-38, in the collection of Leicester City Museums. When comparing the oil and this study, Andrew Causey writes, 'it shows a watch-tower on the sea wall ... Comparisons between the painting and the original drawing, which is dated 1922, shows that the major changes were made in the tower: the removal of a doorway to introduce the interior tunnel and the formation of the upper roundel into an equivalent for the sun' (A. Causey, Paul Nash, Oxford, 1980, pp. 284-285).