Robert Buhler

Barnett Freedman

c.1947

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Artist: Robert Buhler 1916–1989
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions: Support: 762 x 635 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Purchased 1955
Reference: T00032

Catalogue entry

T00032 BARNETT FREEDMAN, C.B.E. c. 1947

Not inscribed.

Canvas, 30×25 (76×63).
Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1955.
Exh: R.A., 1955 (79).
Repr: Royal Academy Illustrated, 1955, p.8.

Barnett Freedman (1901–58), painter and illustrator, is represented in the Gallery by five works. He received the C.B.E. in 1946. This portrait was probably painted in 1947 (letter from the artist, 15 February 1960).

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

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