Wax on canvas
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/wilfred-gabriel-de-glehn-2192" aria-label="More by Wilfred Gabriel De Glehn" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Wilfred Gabriel De Glehn</a>
Soir Antique
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1934
adults
countries and continents
dance
evening
female
France, Alpes Maritimes
group
groups
heathland
landscape
leisure and pastimes
mountain
music and entertainment
nudes
people
places
times of the day
woman
wooded
painting wax canvas
Soir Antique
support: 711 × 914 mm
frame: 883 × 1080 × 80 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> 1934
<p><b>N04805</b> SOIR ANTIQUE <i>c.</i> 1934
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<br/>Inscr. ‘WG de Glehn’ b.r.
<br/>Wax medium on canvas, 28×36 (71×91·5).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1934.
<br/><i>Exh:</i>
R.A., 1935 (206).</p>
<p>One of several pictures inspired by the classical landscape near La Gaude above the Valley of the Var. In the background is the mountain of Le Bahou de Saint-Jeannet. The artist used to stay at Cannes and drive over the country <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a>. The figures were added later (letter from Mrs de Glehn, 17 July 1957).</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
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2004-10-06T00:00:00
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adults countries and continents dance evening female France, Alpes Maritimes group groups heathland landscape leisure and pastimes mountain music and entertainment nudes people places times of the day woman wooded