Not on display
- Artist
- Catherine Dean 1905–1983
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 406 × 508 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by Lady Matthews 1940
- Reference
- N05123
Catalogue entry
N05123 SHEEP'S SKULL AND FERNS 1935
Inscr. on back of canvas, ‘Catherine Dean. Skull and Trees’.
Canvas, 16×20 (40×50).
Presented by Lady Matthews 1940.
Coll: Purchased by Lady Matthews from the artist.
The artist wrote (3 June 1956): ‘Painted in September 1935 in a field at Trelagan, Flintshire, N. Wales, where my husband was painting colliers at the Point of Air Colliery.’
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I
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