The Broken Kylin, 1946 (1980)

Anthony Green

oil on board

Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry

Classification:

Painting

Materials:

Oil, Board

Dimensions:

48.2 x 49.1 x 4.8 cm

Accession Number:

VA.1981.0002

Credit:

Purchased by The Herbert, Coventry, with the assistance of the V&A Purchase Grant Fund and the Contemporary Art Society, 1981

Scheme:

Co-Acquisition

Ownership history:

Purchased by The Herbert, Coventry, with the assistance of the V&A Purchase Grant Fund and the Contemporary Art Society, 1981

Relationship:

Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry

Green's paintings tell of events (real or imagined) in his own and his family's lives. This work shows the artist's father coming up the stairs to see his grandmother standing uncertainly at the top of the stairs after having knocked over and broken the tail off a Chinese pottery animal ('Kylin'). Green sets the date of this particular event as 1946.

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