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Mary Potter (British, 1900-1981) Red House, Pool 100.6 x 60.5 cm. (39 5/8 x 23 3/4 in.) image 1
Mary Potter (British, 1900-1981) Red House, Pool 100.6 x 60.5 cm. (39 5/8 x 23 3/4 in.) image 2
Lot 21AR

Mary Potter
(British, 1900-1981)
Red House, Pool 100.6 x 60.5 cm. (39 5/8 x 23 3/4 in.)

29 September 2021, 15:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £11,475 inc. premium

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Mary Potter (British, 1900-1981)

Red House, Pool
signed, inscribed and dated 'Mary Potter - '66? or later' (verso)
oil on board
100.6 x 60.5 cm. (39 5/8 x 23 3/4 in.)

Footnotes

Provenance
Geoffrey Darke, thence by descent to the present owners
Private Collection, U.K.

Mary Potter studied under Henry Tonks at the Slade School of Art where she won a number of prizes and was later associated with the Seven and Five Group, the London Group and the New English Art Club. She was known for using a restrained palette and by mixing paint with beeswax achieved the chalky luminescence for which her work is admired. In 1951 she moved to Aldeburgh in Suffolk and her aesthetic became increasingly abstract. However, she gained increasing recognition through the 1960s and 70s with Kenneth Clark describing her work as 'enchanting moments of heightened perception'. Potter was awarded an O.B.E. in 1979 and major retrospectives were held at Tate Gallery in 1980 and the Serpentine Gallery the following year, to great critical and public acclaim.

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