Materials:
Oil, Canvas
Physical Object Description:
Inscribed in red oil paint ‘VP.’ bottom right; colourman’s stamp on back of canvas: ‘No.5 | Prepared by | C. Roberson & Co. | PARKWAY | LONDON | NW’
A fragmentary label on the reverse of the frame is inscribed ‘[ ... ] GIRL | Oil o[ ... ]vas, 2[ ... ] x 1[ ... ] National Gallery, Memorial Exh[ ... ] | No.4; 1943-44, CEMA, No.7 | Lent by Sir Kenneth Clark, KCB’
Typed label: ‘Temple Newsam, Steer Exhibition [?1931 or 1951]’. This relates not to Nude but to Philip Wilson Steer’s Fish Girl, 1892, 24 x 19 inches also from Kenneth Clark’s collection, which was exhibited in the Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Philip Wilson Steer 1860-1942 at the National Gallery, June-Aug. 1943 (no.4) and, apparently, as Coster Girl in the subsequent CEMA tour of the exhibition (no.7).
Dimensions:
61 x 50.8 cm
Accession Number:
T00152
Credit:
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1957
Ownership history:
Purchased from the artist by Sir Kenneth Clark (1903-1983), October 1941; from whom purchased by Muirhead Bone (1876-1953) for the Contemporary Art Society, 1942 (invoice 15 March 1943); presented to the Tate Gallery, 1957