Oil paint on canvas
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Decomposing
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1931
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15 October 2014 – 25 January 2015
2015-01-25
15 October 2014 – 25 January 2015
2015-01-25
2014-10-15
Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge, UK)
http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
2014-10-15
Silent Partners: Artist and Mannequin from Function to Flesh
Loan-out
14 September 2019 – 5 January 2020
2020-01-05
14 September 2019 – 5 January 2020
2020-01-05
2019-09-14
Museum MORE (Gorssel, Netherlands)
2019-09-14
British Realist Painting in the 1920s and 1930s
Loan-out
22 November 2024 – 9 March 2025
2025-03-09
22 November 2024 – 9 March 2025
2025-03-09
2024-11-22
Kunsthalle Mannheim (Mannheim, Germany)
2024-11-22
NEW OBJECTIVITY - A LOOK BACK AFTER 100 YEARS
Loan-out
Decomposing
support: 343 × 394 mm
frame: 512 × 562 × 95 mm
Presented by the Trustees of the <a href="/search?gid=999999977" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Chantrey Bequest</a> 1931
<p><b>N04668</b> DECOMPOSING <i>c.</i> 1929
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<br/>Not inscribed.
<br/>Canvas, 13 1/2×15 1/2 (34×39); painted area, 12 1/2×14 1/2 (32×37).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from Sir Gerald Kelly 1931.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Sir Gerald Kelly, purchased from the artist <i>c.</i>
1930–1.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1929 (455); <i>Contemporary British Art</i>, Whitechapel Art Gallery, October–December 1929 (III), as ‘Decomposition’; <i>Spring Exhibition</i>, Oldham, March–April 1930 (185); Heffer Gallery, Cambridge, October 1931 (catalogue untraced); <i>Anthology of English Painting, 1900–1931</i>, French Gallery, November 1931 (6); R.A., 1932 (496).</p>
<p>One of a set of four pictures of lay figures; the other three, ‘Posing’, ‘Composing’ and ‘Reposing’ belong to Sir Gerald Kelly; ‘Decomposing’ and ‘Posing’ (R.A., 1929 (450)) were Becton's first exhibits in this <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/g/genres" title="Glossary definition for 'Genres'"><span>genre</span></a> and aroused considerable interest. All four were exhibited at Oldham in 1930. Of a second set, of three titles only, ‘Posing’ and ‘Reposing’ are in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and ‘Composing’ was bought by Isabel Jeans. (Information based on a letter from Sir Gerald Kelly, 25 February 1954.)</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I</p>
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2004-10-06T00:00:00
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birth to death chair clothing and personal items death drapery furnishings interiors mannequin objects society studio toys and models workspaces