
Not on display
- Artist
- Edward Wadsworth 1889–1949
- Medium
- Tempera and traced carbon on cardboard
- Dimensions
- Support: 356 × 251 mm
frame: 450 × 350 × 65 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Bequeathed by Montague Shearman through the Contemporary Art Society 1940
- Reference
- N05147
Display caption
Gallery label, July 2008
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Catalogue entry
N05147 STILL LIFE c. 1926
Inscr. ‘Edward Wadsworth’ b.r.
Tempera and traced carbon outline on white-primed cardboard, 14×9 7/8 (35·5×25).
Bequeathed by Montague Shearman through the Contemporary Art Society 1940.
Coll: Probably purchased by Montague Shearman from the artist c. 1938–9.
Exh: Tooth's, April–May 1938 (30); Tate Gallery, February–March 1951 (12).
The artist began a series of experiments with tempera, of which he believed this to be one of the earliest, about 1926, to demonstrate the technique to Pierre Roy (letter from the artist, 6 September 1942). In the same year he abandoned landscape painting for still life, often employing elements in a quasi-Surrealist manner. It was in the October of this year that the Surrealist Manifesto appeared.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
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