Correspondence between Oliver F. Brown, Ernest Brown & Phillips Ltd, Leicester Galleries, London, and Margaret Nash.

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  • Reference
      GB 70 TGA 7050/2729-2735
  • Dates of Creation
      1957
  • Physical Description
      8 pieces

Scope and Content

The letters concern Margaret's enquiries about Nash paintings in the collections of Arnold Bennett, Mrs St Ledger and John Drinkwater, and her request for another loan from Oliver Brown (TGA 7050/2729-30, 2732); possible sales of Nash works to Richard Seddon, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield (TGA 7050/2731); Margaret's photograph collection compiled for the Victoria and Albert Museum (TGA 7050/2729, 2733); Nash watercolour's in the Guy Dixon collection (TGA 7050/2734, 2735); and the Nash paintings 'Apple Pickers', 'Daniae', 'In the Tunnels', 'The Ridge, Wytchaete', 'The Salient, British Trenches' (TGA 7050/2729) and the watercolour 'Death of the Heinkel' preparatory painting to 'The Dead Sea' (TGA 7050/2731). Includes list of prices for the paintings 'Ghost of the Heinkel' 'Nightpiece, Toulon', 'Study for Bleached Objects', 'Telecommunications' and 'The Wood Shed' (previously titled 'Two Serpents'), (TGA 7050/2730). Also brief reference to a Braque lithograph (TGA 7050/2729, see also TGA 7050/2725-26).

Related Material

Further correspondence between Margaret Nash and Oliver Brown (TGA 7050/2557-2728).

Correspondence and receipts of sales between Paul Nash and Oliver Brown (TGA 7050/705-737).

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