Leicester Galleries, London, where acquired by Dorothy Elmhirst, 25th March 1931 for £23.2.0 (as Feoch)
Gifted by Dorothy Elmhirst to The Dartington Hall Trust, 25th March 1965

London, Leicester Galleries, 11th Exhibition of the Seven & Five Society, February 1932, cat. no.20 (as Feoch) (probably);
Dartington Hall, High Cross House, c1995 - 2010.

Andrew Nicholson (ed.), Unknown Colour: Paintings, Letters, Writings by Winifred Nicholson, Faber and Faber, London, 1987, p.90, illustrated;
Christopher Andreae, Winifred Nicholson, Lund Humphries, Farnham, 2009, illustrated fig.73, p.86.

Original canvas. Generally the surface is in good original condition with areas of strong impasto. There are one or two tiny old frame abrasions along the left edge and a few old scuff to the surface in the lower left corner. There are a few extremely minor fine lines of craquelure to the sea, which are only visible upon very close inspection. The surface is slightly dirty and may benefit from a light clean. Ultraviolet light reveals pigments which fluoresce, but these are the hand of the artist. Held under glass in a stained wood frame; unexamined out of frame. Please telephone the department on 020 7293 6242 if you have any questions regarding the present work.
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Although an inscription on the stretcher by Winifred reads 1930, this likely refers to the date the picture was framed. Winifred visited Feock, Cornwall, with her family in the summer of 1928 and was not usually in the habit of painting pictures of places after she had left. She wrote to Jim Ede about Feock that summer explaining, 'we are just beginning to discover this place, it is a secret place full of creak [sic] and inlets with dark mysterious forests down to the sea... We have a great friend a fisherman called Johnny Merrifield and we go out sailing with him after we've done painting' (Nicholson quoted in Sebastiano Barassi (ed.), Kettle's Yard and its Artists: an anthology, Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge, 2011).

We are grateful to Jovan Nicholson for his 𝔉kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.