Not on display
- 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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