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EDWARD BURRA (1905-1976)
Picking a Quarrel
stamped with signature 'E.J. Burra' (lower right)
watercolour and gouache on paper
30 1/2 x 52 1/2 in. (77.5 x 133.4 cm.)
Executed in 1968-69.
Provenance
with Lefevre Gallery, London.
Lady Ritchie of Dundee (the artist's estate), her sale; Sotheby's, London, 3 July 2002, lot 302.
with Crane Kalman Gallery, London, where purchased by the present owner in March 2004.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Recent Works by Edward Burra London, Lefevre Gallery, 1969, n.p., no. 8, illustrated.
A. Causey, Edward Burra Complete Catalogue, Oxford, 1985, no. 348, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, British Landscape Painting in the Twentieth Century, London, Crane Kalman Gallery, 2004, n.p., exhibition not numbered, illustrated.
J. Stevenson, Edward Burra Twentieth Century Eye, London, 2007, p. 384, as 'Machines Quarrelling'.
S. Martin, exhibition catalogue, Edward Burra Chichester, Pallant House Gallery, 2011, p. 162, no. 148, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Lefevre Gallery, Recent Works by Edward Burra April - May 1969, no. 8.
London, Tate Gallery, Edward Burra May - July 1973, no. 125, as 'Machines Quarrelling, 1967'.
London, Olympia Fine Art and Antiques Fair, Edward Burra Loan Exhibition, February - March 2001, no. 17.
London, Crane Kalman Gallery, British Landscape Painting in the Twentieth Century, June - July 2004, exhibition not numbered.
London, Crane Kalman Gallery, Edward Burra April - May 2008.
Chichester, Pallant House Gallery, Edward Burra October 2011 - February 2012, no. 148.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.