Not on display
- Artist
- Charles Mahoney 1903–1968
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 914 x 762 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1942
- Reference
- N05323
Display caption
The Garden of Eden is here reinstated as a horticultural fantasy, defined by its relationship with an unseen domestic interior. Mahoney's image of perfection glimpsed from a window was created in the mid-1930s, when the idea of the garden was actually an accomplice of suburbanisation.
Gallery label, May 2003
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Catalogue entry
N05323 ADAM AND EVE IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN c. 1936
Not inscribed.
Oil on canvas, 36×30 (91·5×76·5).
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1942.
Coll: C.A.S., 1941.
Exh: N.E.A.C., 1936 (199), as ‘Adam and Eve’.
Lit: Herbert Furst, ‘Standards of Criticism’ in Apollo, XXXVI, 1942, p.15, repr. p.16.
Repr: Studio, CXXIV, 1942, p.12.
Hitherto catalogued as ‘The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden’.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
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