Edward Ardizzone

The Departure

1931

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Not on display
Artist
Edward Ardizzone 1900–1979
Part of
The Rake’s Progress
Medium
Watercolour and ink on paper
Dimensions
Support: 171 x 210 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Purchased 1940
Reference
A01033

Catalogue entry

A01033 THE RAKE'S PROGRESS 1931

  
(v) THE DEPARTURE
Inscr. ‘E. Ardizzone 31’ b.r.
Watercolour, pen and ink, 6 3/4×8 1/4 (17×21).
Five designs, purchased from the Nicholson Gallery (Knapping Fund) 1940.
Exh: Leger Gallery, June 1931 (33–7); Water Colours by Modern English and French Artists, Mayor Gallery, November 1937 (10–14); Nicholson Gallery, March–April 1940 (12–16).
Lit: D. W. Last, ‘Edward Ardizzone: a first one-man show at the Leger Gallery’ in Studio, CII, 1931, p.36.

Although designed as a series these were not intended for book illustrations. They should not be regarded as moralities in the way that Hogarth's paintings of the same subject were, but rather as mildly satirical reportage.

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


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