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Rain
Purchased 1951
abstraction
architecture
bread
domestic
features
food and drink
from recognisable sources
furnishings
glass
interior - non-specific
interiors
kitchen
man-made
objects
rain
table
table cloth
weather
window
painting oil paint canvas
Rain
support: 610 × 457 mm
Purchased 1951
<strong>Louis Marcoussis</strong> 1878-1941
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<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/marcoussis-rain-n05989" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05989</span></a> <strong>Pluie</strong> (Rain) 1929
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Inscribed 'Marcoussis' t.r.<br/>
Oil on canvas, 24 x 18 (61 x 45.5)<br/>
Purchased from Roland, Browse and Delbanco (Knapping Fund) 1951<br/>
<em>Prov:</em> With Galerie d'Art du Faubourg, Paris (purchased from Mme Alice Halicka, the artist's widow); with Roland, Browse and Delbanco, London<br/>
<em>Exh:</em> <em>Notable Purchases and Paintings by Marcoussis</em>, Roland, Browse and Delbanco, London, February 1951 (32)<br/>
<em>Lit:</em> Jean Lafranchis, <em>Marcoussis: sa Vie, son Oeuvre</em> (Paris 1961), No. P.169, pp.124-5, 132, 136, 266, repr. p.266 as 'Pluie' 1929
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Marcoussis spent the summer of 1929 at Saint-Servan near Saint-Malo and began at this time to introduce a Breton loaf or loaves into a number of his <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/still-life" title="Glossary definition for 'Still life'"><span>still lifes</span></a>. In this picture, a loaf and a wine-glass are on a table with a cloth in front of a window, through which one sees a glimpse of a stormy sky with rain falling. It is particularly similar in theme and style to a smaller picture 'The Storm', now in the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, which is signed and dated 1929 (Lafranchis No. P.170). 'The Storm' includes most of the same elements, including a window with rain falling, but differently arranged. The combination of a still-life subject with a glimpse through a window or a doorway is characteristic of his work at this period.
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<strong>Published in:</strong><br/>
Ronald Alley, <em>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</em>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.485, reproduced p.485
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Catalogue entry
2004-09-14T00:00:00
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abstraction architecture bread domestic features food and drink from recognisable sources furnishings glass interior - non-specific interiors kitchen man-made objects rain table table cloth weather window