Edward Bawden RA

Pen and black ink over pencil Each 13 x 21 cm.; 5 x 8 ½ inches Provenance J.M. Hunter, purchased from The Fine Art Society 22 November 1968 until 2023 Exhibited The Fine Art Society Ltd., London, 'Edward Bawden, CBE, RA - Recent works', 1968 Literature Claudia Roden, 'A Book of Middle Eastern Food', published by Thomas Nelson, London, 1968, with photographs by Pinkard, and black and white illustrations at the head of each chapter by Edward Bawden. These are the original drawings used to illustrated Claudia Roden’s (b. 1936) first cookery book on Middle Eastern food which mixed Bawden’s playful drawings with modern food photography and revolutionised Western attitudes to the cuisines of the Middle East and North Africa. It was substantially expanded and published in a new edition in 1986. She is the author of ten popular and critically-acclaimed cookery books and has a particular interest in the social and historical background of cooking. Bawden lived in Great Bardfield in Essex from the 1930s to 1970 and was a central figure of the Great Bardfield Artists.

Signed and dated l.r.: Edward Bawden/1948, pen and grey ink and watercolour 46 x 59 cm.; 18 x 23 inches Provenance Miss N.B. Allen, purchased in 1949 from the Leicester Galleries, London; Spink, K3 10536; Private collection, U.K. until 2022 Exhibited Leicester Galleries, London: ‘Works by Edward Bawden CBE, ARA’, February 1949, no. 1 Bawden lived in Great Bardfield in Essex from the 1930s to 1970 and was a central figure of the Great Bardfield Artists.

Signed l.r., watercolour 28 x 12 cm