- Artist
- Ambrose McEvoy 1877–1927
- Medium
- Graphite and watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 470 × 387 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1917
- Reference
- N03175
Catalogue entry
N03175 IN A MIRROR c.1911
Not inscribed.
Pencil, chalks and watercolour, 18 1/2×15 1/4 (47×39).
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1917.
Coll:
Purchased by the C.A.S. by 1912, probably from the N.E.A.C.
Exh:
N.E.A.C., winter 1911 (159); C.A.S., First Public Exhibition in London, Goupil Gallery, April 1913 (61).
Lit: Johnson, 1919, II, p.1, repr, pl.94; ‘Wigs’, 1923, p.70.
Repr: Gleadowe, 1924, pl.28; Sir Joseph Duveen, Thirty Years of British Art, 1930, p.27 (in colour).
Related to ‘The Ear-ring’ (N03176) which shows a figure before a mirror.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
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