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Pastel by Lucy Harwood

  • Product Code:  UKS212355
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350.00€

A pastel painting by Chelmsford artist Lucy Harwood. This pastel is titled on the reverse "Ian writing" no indication of who Ian might be is provided. This pastel has a curious history.

It was purchased in a small market in France, which is a strange place to find a work by an eccentric English artist, who is probably little known outside artists circles.

It carries an exhibition label which may give some clues to its history. The carton and the label indicate that the picture was purchased by Jean Francois Lefevre Pontalis, who was a French poet.

The Lefevre Pontalis family were linked to the Renault family on his mothers side. The writer Jean Bertrand Lefevre Pontalis was his brother. Jean Francois died in Orange (vaucluse) in the year 2000 at 79 years old.

The label also states that although painted in 1960, it was purchased in 1969 for £6. Lucy Harwood herself was by all accounts a lively character  well known locally in Suffolk, and was part of the Benton End Group along with Artists such as Cedric Morris. Ashort bio reads ;

Lucy Harwood was a Suffolk artist. She attended the Slade School and then the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing at Dedham, Essex, when it was opened by Cedric Morris in 1937. She was partially paralysed on the right side and her pictures, painted with her left hand, are spontaneous and colourful usually still lifes and landscapes. A member and exhibitor at the Norfolk & Norwich Art Circle she had her first solo exhibition at The Minories, Colchester in 1975 and had further shows at Sally Hunter Fine Art.

Tags: Pastel, Lucy Harwood, Cedric Morris, Benton End, Ixiom Society,