Mountains
pen & wash, Nash, 112 x 168 mm
'Mountains' typeset brc of page, artist's signature and date, 'Paul Nash 1923', bottom right of centre. Craggy mountain range in black with blue sky and a few white clouds. Illustration printed on top half of page on natural paper colour with no border line.
p 376 [tr ed p 394] - 'Next day we climbed the zigzag broken pass, the grassy street of Hafira below us framing a cone-hill in its centre, with, as background, the fantastic grey domes and glowing pyramids of the mountains of Rumm, prolonged to-day into wider fantasies by the cloud-masses brooding over them.'
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