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The present work is a study for an oil of 1928, Diving Stage, in the Collection of the British Council. Andrew Causey writes that it was 'based on a visit to a swimming pool, though clearly figurative, it also marks Nash's assimilation of Picasso's spatial inventiveness in the Cubist pictures of 1910-11 ... As with Nash's still lifes of 1926-7, so here there is a sense of his posing the problem of shallow Cubist space as a means of attaining a more abstract mode of expression, and leaving the issue unresolved' (A. Causey, Paul Nash, Oxford, 1980, p. 145).
Paul Nash designed many interiors for Edward James's London home, 35 Wimpole Street, including the glass bathroom designed for his wife Tilly Losch. Significantly, Edward James owned Encounter in the Afternoon, 1936, one of Nash's most important Surrealist paintings. Later owned by the Hon. Simon Sainsbury, this painting was sold in these Rooms, 18 June 2008, lot 120.
Paul Nash designed many interiors for Edward James's London home, 35 Wimpole Street, including the glass bathroom designed for his wife Tilly Losch. Significantly, Edward James owned Encounter in the Afternoon, 1936, one of Nash's most important Surrealist paintings. Later owned by the Hon. Simon Sainsbury, this painting was sold in these Rooms, 18 June 2008, lot 120.