Lot 533: * Mathews (Denis, 1913-1997). Pub in Chungking,

* Mathews (Denis, 1913-1997). Pub in Chungking, China, c. 1954-55, drybrush oil on paper, 40 x 52cm (15.75 x 20.5ins), framed and glazed, with original Redfern Gallery label to verso. Provenance: Exhibited Redfern Gallery, London, 3-26 February 1955, no. 93, where purchased by Dr. R. Ramsay Garden. Denis Mathews (1913-1997) studied at the Slade School 1930-33 and 1935-36. His first one-man show was the Leicester Galleries in 1947, and he also exhibited at the Redfern Gallery and Agnew's. He was secretary of the Contemporary Art Society from 1946 to 1956. He travelled widely in Europe, Morocco and China (where he travelled as part of the second labour delegation to China). See Patrick Wright, Passport to Peking, A Very British Mission to Mao's China, Oxford University Press, 1910. (1)