Ghost in Shale

Paul Nash (1889 - 1946)

John Creasey Museum

1942

This is one of four works in the 'Ghost' series which were produced and inspired by the South West. This work depicts a bird's skeleton exposed in a cliff face with a radiant sun in the sky. The John Creasey Museum is developing a theme of 'Other Worlds' within its collection and this work by a preeminent artist is an important addition with its visible signs of pre-history so prominently carved into the landscape and emerging from the earth's strata.

• Medium: watercolour with pen & ink
• Dimensions: 39 x 57cm
• Art Fund Grant: £10000 ( Total: £30,000)
• ArtFunded in: 2009
• Vendor: Georgie and Hilary Gerrish

Provenance

Redfern Gallery; HJ Paterson, 1942; Sotheby's, 1989; Peter Nahum at the Leicester Galleries; Christie's, 2006; Peter Nahum Collection of 20th Century Art; Georgie and Hilary Gerrish.

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