FRED CUMING

1930-1922

Garden, Iden

Oil on board
68.5 x 76 cm (framed)
1987

£4,500

Provenance
Private collection (acquired from the RA Summer Exhibition, 1987)

Exhibited
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Summer Exhibition, 1987, no. 530

Description

A vibrant work from 1987, exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition the same year. Looking across a garden toward Oxenbridge Farm in Iden, East Sussex - opposite the artist’s home - the composition captures the quiet intimacy of the Sussex landscape through luminous colour and fluid brushwork. The building is likely the rear of Oxenbridge Farm, where Paul Nash rented a cottage in the late 1920s.

The finest landscape painter of his generation.
— Tim Binding