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Two Ashbins
Edward Bawden, 1948
© Estate of Edward Bawden
Depicts two ashbins placed in an empty barn in a carefully calculated modernist (but not abstract) composition. The weatherboarded barn could possible be local to Bardfield in Essex where the artist lived.
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Title of artwork, date
Two Ashbins, 1948
Date supported
2001
Medium and material
Gouache, watercolour
Dimensions
46 x 55 cm
Grant
541
Total cost
2070
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