- Artist
- Augustus John OM 1878–1961
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 762 × 686 mm
frame: 966 × 892 × 93 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1940
- Reference
- N05346
Catalogue entry
N05346 BLUE CINERARIA c. 1928
Inscr. ‘John’ b.r.
Canvas, 30×27 (76×69).
Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1940.
Exh: (?) Tooth, April–May 1929 (11, 16 or 24, as ‘Cinerarias’ I, II and III); R.A., 1940 (52); Arts Council, 1948–9 (56, repr. pl.12); Sheffield, August–October 1956 (36).
Lit: T. W. Earp, ‘The Recent Work of Augustus John’ in Studio, XCVII, 1929, pp.235–6.
This is an example of the many flower pictures John painted in the mid 1920s. This picture may have been painted at Martigues.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I
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