In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
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- Rodney J. Burn 1899–1984
- Medium
- Ink and watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 495 x 279 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1927
- Reference
- N04242
Catalogue entry
N04242 THE PICK-A-BACK c. 1925
Inscr. ‘R. J. Burn’ b.r.
Pen and wash, 19 1/2×11 (49×28).
Purchased from the artist through the N.E.A.C. (Duveen Drawings Fund) 1927.
Exh:
N.E.A.C., spring 1927 (247).
Repr: Studio, XCV, 1928, p.83.
A squared-up study made about 1925 for ‘The Flight into Egypt’, formerly in the Collection of Sir Augustus Daniel (letter from the artist, 25 October 1953).
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I
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