ACRES OF THE RYE, c.1953
Oil. Dimensions unknown.
Provenance
Untraced.
Exhibited
London, Contemporary Art Society, 1953, no. 12.
Newlyn, Newlyn Art Gallery, 1961, No. 1.
Newlyn, Newlyn Art Gallery Spring exhibition 1977, No. 98.
The title comes from the lyric ‘there was a lover and his lass’ from Shakespeare’s As You Like It.
Between the acres of the rye
With a hey and a ho and a hey nonino,
Those pretty country folk would lie
For another painting with a Shakespearean inspiration see Gouffres Amers (1939).