- Artist
- Thomas Lowinsky 1892–1947
- Medium
- Tempera on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 775 × 724 mm
frame: 1150 × 1130 × 115 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1940
- Reference
- N05226
Catalogue entry
N05226 THE DAWN OF VENUS 1922
Inscr. ‘TEL [in monogram] 1922’ b.l. and ‘The Dawn of Venus by T. E. Lowinsky’ on back.
Tempera on canvas, 30 1/2×28 1/2 (77·5×72·5).
Purchased from the artist (Knapping Fund) 1940.
Exh: Leicester Galleries, February 1926 (25); N.E.A.C., November 1926 (225); International Exhibition, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, October–December 1927 (245); Paintings, Drawings, Engravings and Sculpture by Artists resident in Great Britain and the Dominions, Imperial Gallery of Art, March–June 1931 (139); Wildenstein, January–February 1949 (16).
Lit: Allan Gwynne-Jones, Portrait Painters, 1950, p.37.
Repr: Studio, CXXII, 1941, p.68.
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Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I