Porthleven (1922)

Charles Ginner

oil on canvas

Tate, London, Liverpool and St Ives

Classification:

Painting

Materials:

Oil, Canvas

Physical Object Description:

Inscribed ‘C. GINNER’ in black oil paint bottom right.

Dimensions:

50.8 x 69.2 cm

Accession Number:

N03838

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1924

Scheme:

Gift

Ownership history:

Purchased from the artist, through the Goupil Gallery, London by William Maxwell Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook (1879-1964), 1922; by whom gifted to the Contemporary Art Society, 1923; presented to the Tate Gallery, 1924

Relationship:

Tate, London, Liverpool and St Ives William Maxwell 'Max' Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

This was the first of Ginner’s paintings to be acquired by Tate. It was purchased by Lord Beaverbrook (1879-1964) at the Goupil Gallery, London in 1922 and presented through the Contemporary Art Society two years later. The painting is a study in complex perspective, with few edges at right angles. It depicts the inner harbour, looking toward the sheds of a timber yard, of Porthleven, a fishing village on Mount’s Bay near the most southerly point of Cornwall, the Lizard where Ginner was painting in 1921/2. His sister, Ruby Ginner Dyer, lived at Boscastle on the north coast of Cornwall at the time.

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