Eric Ravilious:
Wallpaper Design: Butterball Crab Apples on a Plate, circa 1924
Unmounted (ref: 11247)

Printed on premium toll coated non-woven wallpaper

10 m x 52 cm per roll

Tags: Eric Ravilious gouache design

Provenance: Given by Eric Ravilious to Douglas Percy Bliss in 1924/5

^{Exhibited: Sanctuary, Artist-Gardeners, 1919-39, Garden Museum, London, 25th February – 5 April, 2020 Literature: Christopher Woodward, Sanctuary: Artist-Gardeners, 1919–1939, published by Liss Llewellyn, 2020.}

^{This is the only design that Ravilious ever produced specifically for wallpaper. It was made during the time he was a student at the Royal College of Art and gifted to his fellow artist Douglas Percy Bliss (1900-1984) in 1924. Together with Edward Bawden, these three artists lived and exhibited with one another; they exchanged ideas and techniques, and made pilgrimages to sites such as ‘Rat Abbey’ - Samuel Palmer’s run-down cottage in Shoreham – in order to study the local countryside. They were inseparable.} 

^{This design has only recently been unearthed having remained for the best part of 100 years, unrecorded, in Bliss's studio.}

^{The design is printed on premium toll coated non-woven wallpaper. The roll length is 10m x 52 cm, add the price of the wallpaper is £120 per roll. Postage costs will apply, but there will be free delivery on orders of 5 rolls or more.}