Image: Royal Academy Illustrated, 1932.

• Title(s): A STORM-TOSSED WILLOW FEELS THE SPRING (posthumous studio sale catalogue; this web site); The Storm-tossed Willow feels the Spring (Royal Academy – Summer Exhibition catalogue, 1932; same title in capitals, Royal Academy Illustrated, 1932).
• Description: Oil sketch of a medium-sized, slender tree springing from a hedgeline; only known image black-and-white photo in Royal Academy Illustrated, 1932.
• Media: In “OIL PAINTINGS” section of Royal Academy – Summer Exhibition catalogue, 1932.
• Dimensions: “19½ in. by 16 in.” (posthumous studio sale catalogue).
• Signature/date/other text: None apparent in Royal Academy Illustrated, 1932, catalogue image.
• History:
  • 1932 – Exhibited Royal Academy – Summer Exhibition, no. 77; shown in Royal Academy Illustrated for same year.
  • 1933 – Exhibited Manchester (according to posthumous studio sale catalogue).
  • 1933 Feb 9 – Auctioned Christie, Manson and Woods, London, lot 74 (posthumous studio sale).
• Location: ?

Note: there is also, lot 139, “A STUDY FOR “STORM SWEPT WILLOW”” in the posthumous studion sale catalogue. It is assumed here that the Royal Academy Illustrated illustration is the final work, but there is a possibility the one shown is the same as the 1933 studio sale ‘study’, with other references being to a untraced final work.

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