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Apples
Purchased 1947
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Apples
support: 460 × 546 mm
Purchased 1947
<p><b>N05760</b> APPLES 1919–20</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘MS’ b.r. and ‘1919 or 20’ on back of canvas.
<br/>Canvas, 18 1/4×21 1/2 (46×54·5); a  3/4 (2) wide strip along the top was previously turned over a smaller stretcher.
<br/>Purchased from Arthur Tooth &amp; Sons (Knapping Fund) 1947.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Purchased by Mrs Cyril Kleinwort from the artist through Arthur Tooth &amp; Sons, July 1942, and sold by them to the Tate Gallery on her behalf 1947.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> (?) London Group, November 1919 (45); Lefevre Galleries, July–August 1942 (13), as ‘Apples (1919)’; Tate Gallery, September–October 1953 (10, repr. pl.6); R.A., October–December 1960 (41).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Rothenstein, 1952, p.234, repr. pl.31.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> John Rothenstein, <i>The Tate Gallery</i>, 1958, p.100 (in colour); Rothenstein, 1962, pl.3 (in colour).</p>
<p>Sometimes known as ‘Apples on a Dish’, it was originally entitled ‘Apples’ and was painted either in 1919 or early 1920 in the artist's Fitzroy Street studio.</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, II
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bowl colour emotions, concepts and ideas food and drink formal qualities fruit, apple objects vessels and containers