Dymchurch on the Kent coast was another major ‘place’ for Nash. The sea and ancient landscape at nearby Romney Marsh preoccupied him until 1925. This lithograph shows the sea wall at Dymchurch and is one of three compositions focused on this area.
The Strange Coast 1920 by Paul Nash (1889-1946). Lithograph
This lithograph shows a view of an empty coastline at low tide on a fresh day, seen from the elevated perspective of a sloping cobbled sea-wall which blocks the composition horizontally from upper left corner. Above the foreshore a promenade leads across horizontal plane of composition; beside it stand two white buildings of identical and unusual design, facing out to sea. Beyond lie distant hills dotted with trees.
In 1921 Nash suffered a severe breakdown and moved to Dymchurch on the Kent Coast. Dymchurch was to be another major ‘place’ for Nash. The sea and ancient landscape at nearby Romney Marsh peoccupied him until 1925. This lithograph shows the sea wall at Dymchurch and is one of three compositions focused on this area.
By this time Nash was becoming a major modern artist. He was influenced by Cezanne and represented nature in an ordered and structured way through abstraction.
There are these inscriptions on the exhibit:
Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery collection, bequest of Emily and Gordon Bottomley 1949
Image © Tate, London, 2010.
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