PAUL NASH (1889-1946) 'A Private World'. Exhibition of 25 photographs.
PAUL NASH (1889-1946) 'A Private World'.
An exhibition of 25 photographs.
Having been selected by John Piper from Paul Nash’s original negatives these photographs, taken on Nash’s No.1A pocket Kodak series 2 camera between 1931 and 1946, were printed by David Lambert on Kodak Veribrom semi-matt paper for Fischer Fine Art and published in an edition of 45 as ‘A Private World, Photographs by Paul Nash’ in 1978. Each is pencil inscribed with the edition number ,‘19/45’, on the reverse and blind stamped with the mark of the Paul Nash Trustees and the Tate Gallery Archives Department,
where the negatives are now lodged.
In his introduction to the Fischer Fine Art catalogue John Piper writes about Nash’s use of his simple Kodak camera. How he would ‘stalk’ a subject; how the photographs reflect the formal obsessions of his painting; his witty interest in the unusual and his love of landscape. ‘…he always expected things to work for him and they usually did’.
A transcript of the Fischer Fine Art Catalogue is available on request.
IMAGES FOLLOW CATALOGUE DETAILS
References:The bracketed numbers refer to the Tate Gallery negatives, the letters to geographical location. The asterisk shows that the image size as printed has been cropped to Nash’s mark-ups.
‘PW’: ‘A Private World, Photographs by Paul Nash’.
Literature:
i. ‘Monster Field: A discovery recorded by Paul Nash’, Paul Nash. Counterpoint Publications. 1946.
ii. 'Fertile Image’. Nash photographs edited by Margaret Nash. Faber & Faber. 1951.
iii. ‘Paul Nash’s Camera’, London Arts Council Touring Exhibition. 1951
iv. ‘Paul Nash’s Photographs: Document and Image’, Andrew Causey. Tate Gallery Publications. 1973.
v. 'The Life of the Inanimate object', Country Life1st May 1937.
vi. 'Nature Imitates Art', Raymond Mortimr, Architectural Review, January 1935.
Works are currently mounted but frames with UVfiltered/non-reflective glass can be quoted for.
 1. The White Horse, Uffington, Berkshire.(137/N*) PWI. 142x302 mms. £375 |  2. The White Horse, Uffington, Berkshire.(134/N*) PWII. 175x302 mms. c.1937. Lit: iv. pl.70. £375 |  3. ‘Monster Field’, Carswall’s Farm, Newent, Gloucestershire. (1108/L*) PW III. 170x303 mms. 1938. Lit: iii, no.22. iv, pl.88. i. and ii. no. 32. Related to an oil painting and two watercolours exhibited 1939. £475 |
 4. Object Trouve. (784/T*). PW IV. 202x302 mms. Lit: iv, pl 37. v. £375 |  5. Stone Post. (661/T*). PW V. 303x160 mms. Lit: ii, no.20. £475 | 
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|  8. Cork Drying; France (1933) or Spain(1934). (714/H). PW VIII. 171x302 mms. £375 | 
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 10. Avebury Sentinel. (114/M*). PW X. 303x173 mms. 1933. Lit: iii, no. 15. v and ii no. 22. £475 |  11. Washing drying on the beach, Nice. (383/H). PW XI. 175x302 mms. 1933/34. Lit: iv, pl. 15. £375 | 
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 13. 'Empty Market Stalls, Ceuta, Morocco’. (716/H). PW XIII. 176x302 mms. 1934. £375 |  14. The Bull Ring, Ronda, Spain. (257/H). PW XIV. 182x302 mms. 1934. Lit: ii, pl. 44. £375 |  15. Bench Seats, Swanage. (408/A*). PW XV. 173x302 mms. 1935/36. £475 |
 16. Boat, Atlantic. (448/J*). PW XVI. 193x302 mms. 1931. £475 |  17. Chain and Net, John Nash’s home, Meadle, Berkshire. (515/R*). PW XVII. 302x183 mms. Margaret Nash noted on the original negative 'Surrealist a very important experiment'. £475 | 
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 19. Rock recessed in grass (Portland?). (1010/T*). PW XIX. 215x301 mms. £375 |  20.Step Edge; below Nash’s garden at New House, Rye, Sussex.(1054/E). PW XX. 177x302 mms. 1931/33. £475 |  21. Blue Pool, near Wareham, Dorset. (936/B*). PW XXI. 212x302 mms. 1937. £475 |
 22. Seashore and Steps, Swanage, Dorset. (1052/A). PW XXII. 175x303 mms. 1935/36. £475 | 
23. Maiden Castle, Dorset. (103/D*). PW XXIII. 110x302 mms. 1935/36.
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 25. Dead Tree, Romney Marsh. (1092/E*). PW XXV. 302x182 mms.1930-34. £475 |