- Artist
- Dod Procter 1892–1972
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 1016 × 1270 mm
frame: 1190 × 1452 × 77 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1937
- Reference
- N05325
Catalogue entry
N05325 THE ORCHARD 1934
Inscr. ‘Dod Procter. 34’ b.l.
Canvas, 40×50 (101·5×127).
Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1937.
Exh:
R.A., 1934 (708); The Nude in British and French Art, Leger Galleries, February–March 1936 (75 or 78, untitled).
Repr: Royal Academy Illustrated, 1934, p.86; Apollo, XXIII, 1936, p.116.
This picture, representing a recumbent nude, was painted in the artist's garden at Newlyn. In a letter of 12 October 1958 Mrs Procter wrote: ‘The idea behind (very much behind!) the Orchard seems to have been Renoir, but that is not the point. I feel, or rather hope, that the pictures themselves will explain.’
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
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