Sketches and notes of Bernard Meninsky
[c.1926–51]
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This collection features a series of sketches and artworks by Bernard Meninsky which were donated to Tate by his second wife, Nora. The majority of this collection, which features sketches of landscapes, still-life drawings, portrait and profile view sketches of male and female figures, and sketches of the female form, with annotations by the artist, is now available to view online.
Further details on this collection are available on the archive catalogue.
- Collection Owner
- Nora Meninsky
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by the Contemporary Art Society in memory of Cecily Lowenthal, 1997.
- Reference
- TGA 9715
204 objects in this collection
- Title
- Sketches by Bernard Meninsky
- Date
- [c.1926–49]
- Description
- This series includes sketches and studies of portraits and figures, landscapes, costumes, characters and theatre props. Many of the sketches are annotated by the artist and include notes about the drawings, personal thoughts, lists of words, notes in shorthand, and calculations.
- Reference
- TGA 9715/1
Showing 181–200 of 204 objects
Bernard Meninsky Sketches of a sitting female nude, and a female face
date not known
Bernard Meninsky Sketch of the back of a female nude
date not known
Bernard Meninsky Sketch of a standing female nude
date not known
Bernard Meninsky Sketch of a female nude, drawn from the neck to the thighs
[c.1944]
Bernard Meninsky Sketch of the back of a female nude
date not known
Bernard Meninsky Sketch of a landscape scene with a sitting figure and the back of a female nude standing in front of a tree
date not known
Bernard Meninsky Sketches of three female nudes
date not known
Bernard Meninsky Sketch of three small nude female figures in movement
[c.1935]
Bernard Meninsky Sketch of a woman in a dress
date not known
Bernard Meninsky Sketch of a seated female figure looking down towards the right
date not known
Bernard Meninsky Sketches of a clothed woman’s head and shoulders, and a watering can
date not known
Bernard Meninsky Four pages torn from the book, ‘Collins’ Kings’ Way Classics’, containing three untitled sketches of a profile of a female face
date not known
Bernard Meninsky Sketches of a standing male nude, and a sitting bearded man holding a bottle to his mouth
date not known
Bernard Meninsky Sketch of two male faces
[c.1927]
Bernard Meninsky Sketch of a partially drawn child’s head
date not known
Bernard Meninsky Sketch of a standing female nude
date not known
Bernard Meninsky Six small sketches of female nudes in a variety of standing poses and one female figure’s head
[c.1948]
Bernard Meninsky Sketch of a profile of a man’s head
date not known
Bernard Meninsky Sketch of two nude figures in an embrace, and a standing female nude
date not known
Bernard Meninsky Sketch of a sitting female figure
[c.1933]