- Artist
- Mark Gertler 1891–1939
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 1073 × 940 mm
frame: 1282 × 1156 × 92 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1963
- Reference
- T00605
Catalogue entry
T00605 QUEEN OF SHEBA 1922
Inscr. ‘Mark Gertler 1922’ b.r.
Canvas, 37×42 1/4 (94×107).
Purchased from Mrs Marjorie M. Bunnemeyer through the Hertford Art Society (Grant-in-Aid) 1963.
Coll: Probably purchased from the artist by Dr Joseph Scanlan; bequeathed in 1944 to his daughter Dr Elizabeth Mary Sheila Scanlan and by her to her sister Mrs Majorie M. Bunnemeyer; offered for sale at Christie's, 1 July 1960 (142), bought in.
Exh: London Group, October–November 1922 (12); Hertford Art Society, May 1963 (94), as ‘Female Nude’.
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Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I
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