Not on display
- Artist
- Leonid Pasternak 1862–1945
- Medium
- Chalk on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 318 × 260 mm
frame: 472 × 384 × 21 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1960
- Reference
- T00343
Catalogue entry
Leonid Pasternak 1862-1945T00343 Boris Pasternak writing 1919
Inscribed in cyrillic 'Pasternak | 1919' t.l. and 'Poet Boris Pasternak' on mount; also an indecipherable address at bottom of drawing
Red and black chalk on paper, 12 1/2 x 10 1/4 (31.5 x 26)
Purchased from Mrs Lydia Pasternak Slater (Grant-in-Aid) 1960
Prov: Mrs Lydia Pasternak Slater, Oxford
Exh: [?Leonid Pasternak, Galerie Victor Hartberg, Berlin, December 1927-January 1928 (46) as 'An der Arbeit']; Leonid Pasternak: The Russian Scene, Pushkin House, London, October-November 1958 (48)
Repr: Boris Pasternak, An Essay in Autobiography (London 1959), p.48; Boris Pasternak, The Last Summer (Harmondsworth 1960), on cover
The artist's son Boris Pasternak (1890-1960), the distinguished poet, novelist and translator, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his novel Doctor Zhivago in 1958.
Published in:
Ronald Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.583-4, reproduced p.583
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