signed and dated; also signed, inscribed and dated and titled on the reverse
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Out Tide, 1931
Provenance:
with Redfern Gallery, London;
Wilfrid A. Evill, by whom bequeathed to Honor Frost, 1963
Exhibition History:
London, Redfern Gallery, David Jones, September – October 1950 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, no. 121);
Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, David Jones: Paintings, Drawings and Engravings, July – August 1954 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, no. 33), with Arts Council Tour to National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, The Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, and the Tate Gallery, London;
London, The Home of Wilfrid A. Evill, Contemporary Art Society, Pictures, Drawings, Watercolours and Sculpture, April – May 1961 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, part III, section 3, no. 13);
Brighton, Brighton Art Gallery, The Wilfrid A. Evill Memorial Exhibition, June – August 1965 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, no. 77);
Woking, The Lightbox, The Ingram Collection: Skyscapes, 10 May – 22 June 2014;
Bristol, Royal West of England Academy, Drawing On, 21 March – 7 June 2015;
Hastings, Jerwood Gallery, Century: 100 Modern British Artists, 23 October 2016 – 8 January 2017;
Woking, The Lightbox, John Minton and the Romantic Tradition, 28 January – 9 March 2017;
Kendal, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Land | Sea | Life: A British Art Collection, 20 October 2017 – 17 February 2018;
Hull, Ferens Art Gallery, Reflection: British Art in an Age of Change, 17 August 2019 – 5 January 2020;
Hastings, Hastings Contemporary, Seaside Modern: Art and Life on the Beach, 27 May – 31 October 2021
Although the location of this painting is not identified, it is typical of David Jones’ light touch with pencil and watercolour, showing little or no influence of his time working at Eric Gill’s Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic at Ditchling in Sussex during the 1920s. Instead his handling of paint foretells the way his work developed into maturity.
