- Artist
- Edward Burra 1905–1976
- Part of
- Wake
- Medium
- Gouache and watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 1022 × 698 mm
frame: 1120 × 792 × 36 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1940
- Reference
- N05166
Catalogue entry
Edward Burra
1905-76
Wake
1940
N05166
Gouache and wash on paper 1022 x 698 (40 1/4 x 27 1/2)
Right-hand panel of a two-sheet composition (see Wake N05165), signed in faded black ink ‘E.J. Burra | 1940’ bottom right, and inscribed in pencil ‘Sinclair | Attlee’; watermarked along left side: ‘MADE IN ENGLAND UNBLEACHED ARNOLD LINEN FIBRE 1921’
Purchased from the artist through the Zwemmer Gallery, London (Knapping Fund) 1940
Exhibited:
Surrealism Today, Zwemmer Gallery, London, June-July 1940 (11,12, as Wake I and Wake II)
Tate Gallery Wartime Acquisitions, National Gallery, London, April-May 1942 (19,20 as Wake I and Wake II)
Long term loan to Leeds City Art Gallery 1970-May 1973 (left panel, N05165, only)
Long term loan to Southend Art Gallery 1970-May 1973 (right panel, N05166, only)
Henry Moore to Gilbert and George, Palais des beaux-arts, Brussels, September-November 1973 (8, reproduced p.22)
Edward Burra, Tate Gallery, London May-July 1973 (62)
Long term loan to Arts Council, placed at Leeds City Art Gallery, February 1974-September 1976
La Planète affolée: Surréalisme, dispersion et influences, 1938-1947, Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, April-June 1986 (50, reproduced p.172)
World War II, Tate Gallery Liverpool, September-November 1989 (16)
Literature:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, Tate Gallery: The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, I, London 1964, pp.84-6
John Rothestein, ‘Edward Burra as an Artist’ in William Chappell (ed.), Edward Burra: A Painter Remembered by his Friends, London 1982, p.44
‘Letters’, William Chappell (ed.), Edward Burra: A Painter Remembered by his Friends, 1982, p.100
Andrew Causey, Edward Burra: Complete Catalogue, Oxford 1985, reproduced [p.128], no.156 as ‘1939’
Art Line, vol.2, no.9, September 1985 p.22, reproduced (left sheet only)
Reproduced:
John Rothenstein, Edward Burra, Harmondsworth, 1945, reproduced [p.44] pl.28, as ‘The Wakes 1937’
Grey Gowrie, ‘The Twentieth Century’ in David Piper (ed.), The Genius of British Painting, London 1975, p.311 (left sheet only)
Note:
Wake (N05166) is the right-hand panel of a diptych. The catalogue entry for the left-hand panel, Wake (Tate N05165), discusses both works.
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