
Edward Burra
The Churchyard, Rye, 1959-61
pencil, watercolour and gouache on paper
133.4 x 77.5 cm x 4cm; 52 1/2 x 30 1/2 in
JC158
Estate of the Artist, c/o Lefevre Fine Art Ltd
Provenance
with Lefevre Gallery, London, where purchased by the previous owner’s husband, circa 1975.Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 27 May 2010, lot 105, where purchased.
Exhibitions
Hastings, Jerwood Gallery, In Focus: Edward Burra - A Rye View, February - June 2015.London, Two Temple Place, Sussex Modernism: Retreat and Rebellion, January - April 2017.
London, Sotheby's, Jerwood Collection: 25, 8-12 June 2018.
Welbeck, Harley Gallery, Coast, Country, City, August - November 2021.
Literature
Exhibition Catalogue, Jerwood Collection; 25, 2018, p.28, illustrated.A. Causey, Edward Burra, Oxford, 1985, no. 269, illustrated as ‘The Churchyard’.
Collection catalogue, Jerwood Collection, London, 2012, p. 30, illustrated p. 21.