- Artist
- Cliff Holden 1919 – 2020
- Medium
- Oil paint on board
- Dimensions
- Support: 730 × 572 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1962
- Reference
- T00504
Catalogue entry
T00504 YELLOW SEATED FIGURE 1947
Inscr. on back of stretcher ‘Cliff Holden Marstrand Sweden’.
Oil on board, 28 3/4×22 3/4 (73×57·5).
Purchased from the Drian Galleries (Grant-in-Aid) 1962.
Exh: Borough Group, Arcade Gallery, March 1949; Fyra Engelsmän, Gummesons Konstgalleri, Stockholm, March–April 1952 (2); London Group, April–May 1959 (288), and Arts Council tour; Hallands Museum, Halmstad, October 1956 (no catalogue traced); Gummesons Konstgalleri, Stockholm, November–December 1961 (16); Drian Galleries, March 1962 (16).
This picture is from a series of seated figures painted in 1947. There is another nude study on the back.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I
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