The House In Clewe Street

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The House In Clewe Street

Eric Fraser (1902-1983)

Price

£850

Signed

Signed with initials and inscribed 'the letters at bottom could be closer together and may be better in a lavender colour?' on reverse
Watercolour landscape with church on reverse

Medium

Watercolour with bodycolour

Dimensions

8 x 6 ½ inches

Provenance

The Artist's Family

Illustrated

Preliminary design for Mary Lavin, The House in Clewe Street, London: Michael Joseph, 1945, Dust Jacket

Exhibited

'Eric Fraser 1902-1983', Chris Beetles Gallery, April-May 2013, No 62;
'A Century of British Art: 1945-2010', Chris Beetles Gallery, 5 October-6 November 2021, No 273

Mary Lavin (1912-1996) was an Irish American writer best known for her short stories. Her first novel, The House in Clewe Street (1945), is a family saga that reveals the poignancies of an Irish Catholic upbringing.

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