Eric Ravilious: Butterball Crab Apples on a plate, Design for Wallpaper, circa 1924

Eric Ravilious: Butterball Crab Apples on a plate, Design for Wallpaper, circa 1924 - on Art WW I

Eric Ravilious:
Butterball Crab Apples on a plate, Design for Wallpaper, circa 1924
Framed (ref: 9584)

Inscribed to reverse "Drawing by Eric Ravilious given to me 1924 or 5"

Gouache, squared

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

The repeat pattern is likely to be a crab apple of the Butterball of Golden Hornet variety

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