View at Florence

Details

EDWARD BURRA (1905-1976)
View at Florence
stamped with signature 'E.J. Burra' (lower right)
watercolour and gouache on paper
31 ¼ x 52 ¼ in. (79.4 x 132.6 cm.)
Executed in 1965-67.

Provenance

with Lefevre Gallery, London.
Neil Munro 'Bunny' Roger.
A bequest from the above to the present owner's late husband in 1997.

Literature

A. Causey, Edward Burra: Complete Catalogue, Oxford, 1985, n.p., no. 337, pl. 31.

Exhibited

London, Lefevre Gallery, Recent Works by Edward Burra, April - May 1967, n.p., no. 2, illustrated.
London, Olympia, Edward Burra, February - March 2001, no. 31.

Further details

We are very grateful to Professor Jane Stevenson for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.

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Lot Essay

Edward Burra’s View at Florence was executed around the time of his second and third visits to Florence, in the late summers of 1965 and 1966. Burra had not visited the city since 1926, this time staying with the American novelist, Jennings Rice. View at Florence is typical of Burra's later work as he increasingly favoured large-scale, empty landscapes. The present watercolour is most likely painted from the Ponte Vecchio, looking east over the Arno, with the bridges receding into the distance.

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