Prunella Clough valuation
Painted the edges of industrial Britain, wire, gates, lorries and wasteland, moving from figuration into quiet abstraction.
Prunella Clough was born in Chelsea in 1919, the niece of the designer Eileen Gray, and studied part time at Chelsea School of Art from 1937, taking classes with Henry Moore.
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Bio
Prunella Clough was born in Chelsea in 1919, the niece of the designer Eileen Gray, and studied part time at Chelsea School of Art from 1937, taking classes with Henry Moore. During the war she worked as a cartographer for the Office of War Information. Her early paintings, of fishermen and harbours at Lowestoft and Southwold and then of factory workers, lorry drivers and industrial sites, linked her to the Neo-Romantics, and over the following decades her subjects, wire, fences, gates, scrapyards and shadows on subway walls, became steadily more abstract. She had her first solo show in 1947 and a retrospective at the Whitechapel in 1960, taught at Chelsea and, for more than thirty years, at Wimbledon School of Art, and in 1999, the year she died, won the Jerwood Prize for painting.
Clough worked steadily but showed rarely, and paintings, works on paper, prints and the found-object assemblages discovered in her studio after her death all appear. Her later dealer was Annely Juda Fine Art, and a provenance through it or her estate is common.
Southwold, the Whitechapel and Tate Britain
Her painting Lowestoft Harbour was made for 60 Paintings for '51, the Arts Council's exhibition for the Festival of Britain, and was bought for the Arts Council Collection.
Tate Britain held a retrospective in 2007, and Art UK lists more than a hundred of her works in British public collections.
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