Not on display
- Artist
- Derwent Lees 1885–1931
- Medium
- Oil paint on wood
- Dimensions
- Support: 330 x 406 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Bequeathed by Dr John MacGregor 1942
- Reference
- N05355
Catalogue entry
N05355 MéTAIRIE DES ABEILLES 1912
Inscr. ‘Derwent Lees 12’ b.l.
Oil on panel, 13×16 (33×40·5).
Bequeathed by Dr John MacGregor 1942.
Coll:
Dudley Wallace, sold Christie's, 9 June 1933 (113, with another), bought by MacGregor.
Exh: Chenil Galleries, January 1914 (57).
The title probably refers to a small-holding near the village of Les Abeilles inland from Banyuls and a few miles south of Collioure, the subject of a number of paintings by the artist, e.g. N04241. The district is noted for its bees.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I
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