Not on display
- Artist
- Charles Murray 1894–1954
- Medium
- Oil paint on wood
- Dimensions
- Support: 419 x 584 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1940
- Reference
- N05149
Catalogue entry
N05149 BATHERS 1940
Inscr. ‘C. Murray’ b.r.
Oil on plywood, 16 1/2×23 (42×58·5).
Purchased from the artist (Knapping Fund) 1940.
Exh: Leeds, May–June 1955 (12).
Painted in 1940 (letter from the artist's widow, 22 January 1958). There are rough pencil drawings of a face and a plum on the back.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
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