Robin Ironside

The Somnambulist

c.1943

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Artist: Robin Ironside 1912–1965
Medium: Gouache on paper
Dimensions: Support: 419 x 698 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1944
Reference: N05459

Catalogue entry

N05459 THE SOMNAMBULIST c. 1943

Not inscribed.
Gouache, 16 1/2×27 1/2 (42×70).
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1944.
Coll: Purchased at the Redfern Gallery by the C.A.S. 1944.
Exh: Paul Nash, Henry Moore, John Piper, Graham Sutherland, Robin Ironside..., Redfern Gallery, January 1944 (30).

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

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