Bernard Meninsky

Portrait of a Boy

1923

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Artist: Bernard Meninsky 1891–1950
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions: Support: 914 x 711 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Presented anonymously through the Art Fund 1925
Reference: N04118

Catalogue entry

N04118 PORTRAIT OF A BOY 1923

Inscr. ‘Meninsky 23’ b.r.
Canvas, 36×28 (91·5×71).
Presented by an anonymous donor through the National Art-Collections Fund 1925.
Exh: (?) Goupil Gallery Salon, Goupil Gallery, 1923 (175), as ‘David’; Arts Council, New Burlington Galleries, December 1951 (not in catalogue); Adler, Gertler, Meninsky, Ben Uri Gallery, summer 1957 (1).

A portrait of the artist's son David.

Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II

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