
Not on display
- Artist
- Humphrey Jennings 1907–1950
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas on board
- Dimensions
- Support: 352 × 445 mm
frame: 375 × 476 × 30 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the Trustees of the Elephant Trust 1981
- Reference
- T03213
Catalogue entry
T03213 SWISS ROLL 1939
Inscribed ‘H.Jennings 1939’ on back of canvas
Oil on canvas mounted on board, 13 1/8 × 17 5/8 (35.3 × 44.5)
Presented by the Elephant Trust 1981
Exh: Britain's Contribution to Surrealism of the 30's and 40's, Hamet Gallery, November 1971 (51)
This painting was based on part of one of Humphrey Jennings's collages which appears in a photograph reproduced in Mary-Lou Jennings (ed.), Humphrey Jennings: Film Maker/Painter/Poet, 1982, p.14. The collage seems to have been made by sticking a photograph of a swiss roll into one of a Swiss mountain landscape, with the Matterhorn on the right and a house on the left. The painting follows the top right-hand section of the collage fairly closely in design, but is less detailed.
Published in:
The Tate Gallery 1980-82: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions, London 1984
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