Samuel John Peploe

Tulips

1923

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Artist: Samuel John Peploe 1871–1935
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions: Support: 610 × 508 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Purchased 1927
Reference: N04224

Catalogue entry

N04224 TULIPS (?) 1926

Inscr. ‘S J Peploe’ b.l.
Canvas, 24×20 (61×51).
Purchased from the artist through the Lefevre Gallery (Clarke Fund) 1927.
Exh: Lefevre Gallery, December 1926 (6).

The artist painted many pictures of tulips which are recorded in his exhibition catalogues. The memorial exhibition at the McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, February 1937, included six painted between 1914 and 1931 (Nos.7, 15, 16, 56, 108 and 120). With regard to this picture, William Peploe, son of the artist, provided the information that it was practically certain that it was painted in 1926 and that there were no previous owners (letter of 20 January 1959).

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