Leon Zack

Painting

1952

© ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2019

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Not on display
Artist
Leon Zack 1892–1980
Original title
Peinture
Medium
Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions
Support: 975 x 1305 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Purchased 1959
Reference
T00321

Catalogue entry

Léon Zack born 1892

T00321 Peinture (Painting) 1959

Inscribed 'Léon Zack 59' b.r.
Oil on canvas, 38 x 51 (96.5 x 129.5)
Purchased from the Waddington Galleries (Knapping Fund and Grant-in-Aid) 1959
Prov: With Waddington Galleries, London (purchased from the artist)
Exh: House Exhibition No.2, Waddington Galleries, London, August 1959 (no catalogue); Léon Zack, Waddington Galleries, London, December 1959 (14, repr.)
Repr: Pierre Courthion, Léon Zack (Paris 1961), p.47 in colour (wrongly dated 1960)

The artist said that this picture was painted in his apartment at Vanves without any preliminary drawings and without any preconceived idea in mind. He no longer gives titles to his pictures. (Letter of 20 August 1975).

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, p.768, reproduced p.768


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