Oil paint on board
Tate Collection
Works with images
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Chantrey Bequest
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/christopher-chamberlain-884" aria-label="More by Christopher Chamberlain" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Christopher Chamberlain</a>
Dangerous Corner
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1954
architecture
England
Fulham Road
house
places
residential
street
streetlight
townscapes / man-made features
UK countries and regions
UK London
wall
painting oil paint board
The Dangerous Corner
support: 1003 × 1486 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> 1954
<p><b>N06220</b> THE DANGEROUS CORNER 1954
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<br/>Inscr. on reverse ‘Christopher Chamberlain 402 Fulham Road S. W. 6 Dangerous Corner’.
<br/>Oil on hardboard, 39 1/2×58 1/2 (100×148·5).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1954.
<br/><i>Exh:</i>
R.A., 1954 (509).
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Royal Academy Illustrated</i>, 1954, p.55.</p>
<p>The scene is the corner of Fulham Road, on the right-hand side of the picture, and Moore Park Road, S.W.6. It was painted from a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a> in the possession of the artist, who wrote: ‘I have made many studies in this area where I live, in the belief that one must learn thoroughly something about a particular and loosely limited area within one's experience. I don't believe it is possible to make much of a statement about anything unless one knows one's subject very well indeed’ (letter of 3 April 1955).</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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Catalogue entry
2004-10-08T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
architecture England Fulham Road house places residential street streetlight townscapes / man-made features UK countries and regions UK London wall