Bertram Nicholls

Drying the Sails

1920

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Artist
Bertram Nicholls 1883–1974
Medium
Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions
Support: 305 x 406 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1921
Reference
N03586

Catalogue entry

N03586 DRYING THE SAILS 1920

Inscr. ‘Nicholls. 1920’ b.r.
Canvas mounted on board, 12×16 (30·5×40·5).
Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1921.
Exh: R.A., 1921 (375).
Lit: Frank Rutter, Bertram Nicholls, 1935, pp.17 and 35, repr. pl.2.
Repr: Studio, LXXXVII, 1924, p.69.

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

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