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- Dame Eileen Mayo 1906–1994
- Title
- Trial painting for ‘The Bamboo Dancer And Other African Tales’
- Date
- 1937
- Medium
- Watercolour and graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 217 × 139 mm
- Description
- The book was edited by J.H. Driberg and printed by Douglas Cleverdon at The Clover Hill Press, 1937. The study is annotated 'If you approve of [slate?] 2, I will of course make a decent one-piece drawing of it.'
- Format
- Artwork - on paper, unique
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to the Archive by Eileen Mayo, via her step-son, John Gainsborough, in March 1991.
- Reference
- TGA 916/47
Archive context
- Personal papers of Eileen Mayo TGA 916 (97)
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