'Portrait of Zarrin Kashi Overlooking Whitechapel High Street', Leonard McComb

Artwork details

Artist

Leonard McComb (born 1930)

Title

Portrait of Zarrin Kashi Overlooking Whitechapel High Street

Date 1981

MediumWatercolour and graphite on canvas

Dimensionsunconfirmed: 1840 x 1885 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1983

Reference

T03601

Not on display

Catalogue entry

T03601 Portrait of Zarrin Kashi Overlooking Whitechapel High Street 1981

Watercolour on paper (watermark ‘Hayle Mill Handmade’) laid on cotton duck 72 3/8 × 74 1/4 (1840 × 1885)
Inscribed ‘Leonard/McComb/1981’ b.l. and ‘My name is Zarrin I am my fathers daughter and my father loves me’ along lower edge
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1983
Prov: Purchased from the artist by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1983
Exh: RA 1983 (808, as ‘Portrait of Zarine Kashi, Whitechapel’); Leonard McComb Drawings Paintings Sculpture, AC tour, Serpentine Gallery, October–November 1983, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, November 1983–January 1984, City Art Gallery, Manchester, January–March 1984, Gardner Art Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton, March–April 1984, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, May–June 1984 (68, repr. in col… (read more)