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Wannock Dew Pond, a scene on the Sussex Downs near Ravilious's home
in Eastbourne, shows the culmination of his early style, based on
the English tradition of topographical watercolours, untouched by
modernism.
The influence of Cézanne, transmitted through John and
Paul Nash and other modern English watercolourists, is apparent in
the dry painting style and the flattening of space in The Red
Cottage and Firle Beacon, both painted in 1927.
The pencil portrait of an unknown girl shows a direction that
Ravilious never chose to develop. He felt uneasy drawing the figure
and tended to flatten and stylise people by making their faces
blank.
Great Bardfield and Castle
Hedingham
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