Prunella Clough (1919-1999) §
Skip Rope, 1999
£5,040
Auction: 28 October 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
oil on canvas
Dimensions
58.5cm x 58.5cm (23in x 23in)
Provenance
Provenance:
Annely Juda Fine Art, London, 2000;
Private Collection, London.
Footnote
Exhibited:
Annely Juda Fine Art, London, Prunella Clough: The Late Paintings and Selected Earlier Works, November - December 2000, cat. no.6.
Prunella Clough relished the overlooked, the inconsequential and the mundane. Urban landscapes and industrial hinterlands were her territory. Later in her career Clough’s work tended towards abstraction and Skip Rope is therefore an interesting example of representative painting of the period. This work was completed in 1999, the final year of Clough’s life; three months before her death, she was awarded the Jerwood Painting Prize.
London-born Clough studied at Chelsea School of Art. She is regarded as one of the most significant British post-war painters. Her work is held in major collections including Tate, the Courtauld Gallery, the Government Art Collection and the Ashmolean Museum. In 2007 a major retrospective of her work was held at Tate.