Geoffrey RhoadesWinter Afternoon, Chalk Farm 1935

N05214 WINTER AFTERNOON, CHALK FARM 1935

Inscr. ‘Rhoades 35’ b.r.
Canvas, 32 3/4×44 3/4 (83·2×113·7).
Purchased from the artist (Knapping Fund) 1940.
Exh: R.A., 1937 (294); United Artists, R.A., January–March 1940 (221).

The artist wrote (26 February 1959): ‘I remember it wasn't painted at all from nature, but from a drawing. I made no colour studies. It was started at Haverstock Hill and finished months later at a different address.’

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