Inscribed l.l.: To Richard from Paul

Watercolour and coloured crayon over pencil, 22 by 29 cm

Provenance: Richard Smart (a gift from the artist); Arthur Tooth & Son; Hamet Gallery where acquired by Mr & Mrs Nicholas Upton

Exhibited: London, Redfern Gallery, Paul Nash Retrospective Exhibition, April 1961, no:57; London, Hamet Gallery, Paul Nash, Watercolours and Drawings, 1970, no.26

Literature: Andrew Causey, Paul Nash, Clarendon Press, 1980, no.698, p.414

Nash lists the present work in his notebooks as a watercolour that was executed in 1930. It is a study for the painting Tamaris Well that was in the collection of Her Majesty the Queen by 1948. Nash wrote to Oliver Brown on the subject of this picture "The little hut...is really a small stone covering in the shape of a tiny mosque and is supposed to cover what is known as Jacob's tomb."