- Artist
- Robert Medley 1905–1994
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 1524 × 1264 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1962
- Reference
- T00498
Catalogue entry
T00498 THE ANTIQUE ROOM AT THE SLADE: NIOBE AND HERMES 1952
Inscr. ‘Ro. Medley’ t.r.
Canvas, 60×49 3/4 (152×126·5).
Purchased from the artist (Knapping Fund) 1962.
Exh: Leicester Galleries, June–July 1955 (18), as ‘The Antique Room: “Niobe and Hermes”’; London Group, November–December 1955 (76), as ‘The Antique Room “Niobe and Hermes”, 1955’; Painting at Camberwell, South London Art Gallery, May–June 1960 (not numbered), as ‘The Antique Room, 1956’; Whitechapel Art Gallery, November–December 1963 (37).
A view in the Antique Room of the Slade School, painted in 1952 (letter from the artist, 20 April 1962). Another picture of ‘The Antique Room’ was in the C.A.S. Exhibition, Figures in their Setting, 1953 (40), and is now at Huddersfield, while three further paintings were included in the 1955 Leicester Galleries Exhibition, ‘The Antique Room: “Turk's Head” and “Ilissus”’ (10), ‘The Antique Room: “Niobe” and the “Slave”’ (15) and ‘Michelangelo's “Slave”’ (4). Two ink drawings of the Antique Room at the Slade, also of 1952, were exhibited at the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, in 1953 (58 and 59, the second repr. on cover).
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
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