Catalogue entry
T00102 LAMENTATION 1911
Inscr. ‘Lamb 1911’ t.l. and, on back, ‘Henry Lamb 1911’.
Canvas, 36×21 (91·5×61).
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1956.
Coll: Hugh Blaker; Leicester Galleries; C.A.S.
Exh: N.E.A.C., summer 1911 (209); Contemporary British Art, Whitechapel Art Gallery, October–December 1928 (Upper Gallery, 8); The Hugh Blaker Collection, Platt Hall, Rusholme, Manchester, May–June 1929 (86), and Brighton, September–October 1929 (78); New Year Exhibition, Leicester Galleries, January 1952 (61).
Painted soon after a long stay in Brittany 1910–11 where the artist had witnessed the death of a peasant woman, the mother of ten children; this work and the two versions of ‘Death of a Peasant’ (see N05630 above) were based on sketches made on the spot (letter from the artist, 24 August 1956). First exhibited as ‘Lamentation’, this work has also been known as ‘Mourners’… (read more)
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