Charles MurrayBathers 1940

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Artwork details

Artist
Charles Murray (1894‑1954)
Title
Bathers
Date 1940
MediumOil paint on wood
Dimensionssupport: 419 x 584 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition Purchased 1940
Reference
N05149
Not on display

Catalogue entry

N05149 BATHERS 1940

Inscr. ‘C. Murray’ b.r.
Oil on plywood, 16 1/2×23 (42×58·5).
Purchased from the artist (Knapping Fund) 1940.
Exh: Leeds, May–June 1955 (12).

Painted in 1940 (letter from the artist's widow, 22 January 1958). There are rough pencil drawings of a face and a plum on the back.

Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II

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