Not on display
- Artist
- Frank Dobson 1888–1963
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Dimensions
- Object: 210 x 130 x 143 mm, 1.3 kg
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Transferred from the Victoria & Albert Museum 1983
- Reference
- T03720
Catalogue entry
T03720 Kneeling Figure 1935
Terracotta 8 1/4 × 5 1/4 × 5 3/4 (210 × 130 × 150)
Inscribed ‘Dobson’ on base
Transferred from the Victoria and Albert Museum 1983
Prov: Purchased from the artist by the Department of Circulation, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1938
Exh: Frank Dobson, Leicester Galleries, April–May 1935 (5); Frank Dobson, Memorial Exhibition, Arts Council Gallery, June–July 1966 (49); travelling exhibitions of the Department of Circulation, Victoria and Albert Museum
This terracotta is dated by the catalogue of Dobson's memorial exhibition in 1966, and was presumably made for his Leicester Galleries exhibition of 1935. It was purchased by the Victoria and Albert Museum together with a number of printed fabrics designed by Dobson.
Published in:
The Tate Gallery 1982-84: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions, London 1986
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