Derwent Lees

Pear Tree in Blossom

1913

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Not on display
Artist
Derwent Lees 1885–1931
Medium
Oil paint on wood
Dimensions
Support: 324 x 406 mm
frame: 530 x 608 x 85 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Purchased 1939
Reference
N05021

Catalogue entry

N05021 PEAR TREE IN BLOSSOM 1913
 
Inscr. ‘Lees 13’ b.r.
Oil on panel, 12 3/4×16 (32·5×40·5).
Purchased from the Redfern Gallery (Knapping Fund) 1939.
Exh: Chenil Galleries, January 1914 (52), as ‘The Pear Tree’; Twentieth Century Art, Whitechapel Art Gallery, May–June 1914 (383); Redfern Gallery, April–May 1934 (16), as ‘The Pear Tree, Provence’; lent to the Tate Gallery 1934–8 by Rex de C. Nan Kivell; Augustus John, J. D. Innes, Derwent Lees, Redfern Gallery, February–March 1939 (40).

There is a rough sketch of hills 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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