George Wallace Jardine, British 1920-2003- The Nude and the whale; oil on board, signed, bears inscription on the reverse, 30.5x61cm, (unframed), (may be subject to Droit de Suite) Provenance: Purchased directly from the artist by the poet, screenwriter, actor and playwright Christopher Logue CBE. According to the inscription on the reverse it was purchased by Logue in 1965 after a reading in Liverpool. Note: George Jardine trained at the Royal College of Art, London, 1939-43 where he was taught by Stanley Spencer, Paul Nash and Edward Bawden. He was primarily a surrealist painter. A retrospective exhibition of his work was held at the Liverpool Academy of Arts in 2012. His work is represented in the collections of the Arts Council of Great Britain, National Museums, Liverpool, Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead, Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport, and the University of Liverpool.