£4,250
Five Centuries: Furniture, Paintings & Works of Art from 1600 | 580
Auction: 20 November 2019 at 10:00 GMT
Signed with a monogram, oil on canvas
Provenance: The artist's family and thence by descent
Exhibited: Fine Art Society, London 1927
Note: Reviewers of Codrington’s exhibition in 1927 commented particularly on landscapes painted within reach of her home at Wistler’s Wood. ‘The Surrey hills and vales’ for one critic, provoked in her ‘the sudden development of her feeling for light and colour … [and] patterns of flowing rhythm that hold a hint of the … subconscious influence of Japanese design …’ (The Observer, 10 April 1927). As in her figure studies, Codrington looks for clean lines and pure colours. In this, she was indeed ‘in the forefront of the movement’ in British landscape painting and for works like Ploughed Field, stands beside John Nash and Stanley Spencer.