Tea Caddy with Gourds

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Bryan Pearce (1929-2007)
Tea Caddy with Gourds
signed 'Bryan Pearce' (lower left); signed again, inscribed and dated 'BRYAN PEARCE. ST IVES/Tea Caddy.with/gourds' (on the backboard)
oil on board
20 x 15 ¾ in. (50.8 x 40 cm.)

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by David Crane, August 1976.

Literature

C.J. Stevens, The Miracle of Bryan Pearce, Maine, 2004, illustrated, n.p.

Exhibited

St Ives, Wills Lane Gallery, 1972.
St Ives, Penwith Gallery, 1972.
Penzance, Orion Gallery, 1973.
South Molton, The Beaford Art Centre, 1973.
Penzance, Newlyn Gallery, 1973.
Oxford, Museum of Modern Art, 1973.
Darlington, The Cider Press, 1973.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

David Crane (1933-2017), was a keen photographer, and along with his wife Kate (1932-2001), became good friends with many of the artists living and working in St Ives after the Second World War. Together, they acquired works directly from the artists, often as gifts, or at a ‘special price’. Crane’s own highly insightful and sensitive photographs of Terry Frost, Bryan Pearce and Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, amongst many others, have been both exhibited, and reproduced internationally.

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