- Artist
- E. Box 1919–1988
- Medium
- Oil paint and acrylic paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 502 × 362 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by Professor Marston Fleming 1977
- Reference
- T02219
Catalogue entry
T02219 THE EXPULSION 1951
Inscribed ‘E. Box’ b.r. and on reverse in pencil ‘The Expulsion from Paradise/E Box 1951’
Oil and resin on linen canvas, 19 3/4 × 14 1/4 (50.5 × 36.2)
Presented by Professor Marston Fleming 1977
Prov: Given to Professor Marston Fleming by the artist soon after the work was executed.
Exh: Francis Bacon; E. Box, Hanover Gallery, December 1951–January 1952 (I); E. Box: Paintings, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, October–November 1953 (15); Sunday Painters: an Exhibition arranged by Robert Melville, ICA, October 1954 (13); E. Box, Galleria dell'Obelisco, Rome, April 1956 (works not numbered); The Paintings by E. Box, Guildhall of St George, King's Lynn, January 1956; Der Lusthof der Naeven, Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, July–September 1964 (43, repr.); Le Monde des Naifs, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, October–December 1964 (43, repr.)
Repr: Gentle Friends: The Paintings of E. Box with a foreword by Robert Melville, London n.d., repr. in colour (plate 4) with a detail in black in white (plate 3); coloured postcard published by the Pallas Gallery.
‘The Expulsion’ is the definitive title of this work, though it has on occasions been referred to as ‘The Expulsion from Paradise’. It was immediately preceded by another version in which Adam and Eve are in the foreground, and which is now in a private collection. The artist depicts animals in most of her paintings as she feels that she can relate to them. Her hope has always been that a state of co-existence should exist between man and animals. ‘We lost that and now beasts are used and abused by man-they have no defences. My feelings simply are love and compassion’.
This catalogue entry is approved by the artist and is based on a conversation between her and the compiler of 12 October 1977.
Published in:
The Tate Gallery 1976-8: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions, London 1979
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