Not on display
- Artist
- Edward Le Bas 1904–1966
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 883 x 1099 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1940
- Reference
- N05334
Catalogue entry
N05334 SALOON BAR 1940
Inscr. ‘E le Bas’ b.r. and on stretcher ‘E le Bas 53 Bedford Square. W.C.1. “Saloon Bar” No. 1’.
Canvas, 34 3/4×43 1/4 (88×110).
Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1940.
Exh: R.A., 1940 (117).
Repr: Royal Academy Illustrated, 1940, p.107.
Painted in 1940 in the artist's studio in Bedford Square from studies made in a Knightsbridge pub during the first months of the 1939–45 war (letter from the artist, 27 December 1955).
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I
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