Charles Mahoney

Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden

exhibited 1936

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Not on display

Artist
Charles Mahoney 1903–1968
Medium
Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions
Support: 914 × 762 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1942
Reference
N05323

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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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