Bernard Leach (1887-1979), a watercolour of Chinese boats Early to mid 20th century, faint pencil initials to lower right, pencil annotation to reverse 'Mr Manners / Marazion'Brush and black ink and wash on paper, fishing boats and junks in a Chinese harbour31 x 37.5 cm (image) (ARR) Provenance: Private Collection, Bath; Tremayne Applied Arts, St IvesNote: Bernard Leach was born in Hong Kong and lived between there and Japan until settling permanently in England at the Leach Pottery, St Ives in 1920. It is worth drawing attention to the silhouetted figures in a punt centre right which bear a similarity to his famous Pilgrim plate 'Wanderer' figure. He was to return to the Far East throughout his life Literature: For similar examples of fisherman in punts see 'Drawings, Verse and Belief - Bernard Leach' Oneworld, 1988 revised third edition. In particular, images on pages 27, 87 and 95

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