
Not on display
- Artist
- Charles Murray 1894–1954
- Medium
- Gouache on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 318 × 527 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1942
- Reference
- N05370
Catalogue entry
N05370 RUSSIAN SOLDIERS 1941
Inscr. ‘C. Murray’ b.r.
Gouache, 12 1/2×20 3/4 (31·5×53).
Purchased from the artist (Knapping Fund) 1942.
Exh: Leeds, May–June 1955 (13).
Lit: Ernest I. Musgrave, ‘Charles Murray 1894–1954’ in Studio, CXLIX, 1955, p.181, repr. p.182.
Repr: V. & A., Twentieth Century British Water-Colours, 1958, pl.40.
Painted in 1941 (letter from the artist's widow, 22 January 1958), a reminiscence of the artist's service with the White Army in Russia 1918–20. Other Russian scenes date from the 1930s.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
You might like
-
William McMillan The Birth of Venus
exhibited 1931 -
Charles Murray Bathers
1940 -
Richard Caton Woodville Marshal Ney at Eylau
1913 -
Edward Burra Soldiers at Rye
1941 -
Charles Murray The Resurrection
1944 -
Wyndham Lewis The Surrender of Barcelona
1934–7 -
Eric Kennington Making Soldiers: Bayonet Practice
c.1917 -
Eric Kennington Making Soldiers: Ready for Service
c.1917 -
Eric Kennington Making Soldiers: Bringing In Prisoners
c.1917 -
Gerald Pryse Untitled (Cavalry Halted under Trees)
c.1917 -
William Roberts Peasants and horseman
no date -
William Roberts Study for ‘Trooping the Colour’
c.1958–9