Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
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Contemporary Art Society
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Lowestoft Bowl
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1917
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<p>This painting sits firmly within a tradition of still life painting that extends from seventeenth-century Dutch depictions of fruit, vegetables, game or flowers. Like his Dutch predecessors, Nicholson was concerned with evoking his subject matter in a highly realistic fashion, and creating the illusion of three-dimensional objects in a two-dimensional picture. In this work, the viewer's attention is also drawn to the luscious surface qualities of the Lowestoft porcelain, which the artist has captured in paint.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
17 October 2001 – 23 February 2003
2003-02-23
17 October 2001 – 23 February 2003
2003-02-23
2001-10-17
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2001-10-17
Virtual and Real
Collection based display
1 January 2009 – 31 December 2011
2011-12-31
1 January 2009 – 31 December 2011
2011-12-31
2009-01-01
British Embassy (Washington D.C., USA)
2009-01-01
Long loan to GAC - Ambassador's Residence Washington D.C.
Loan-out
7 May 2019 – 4 August 2019
2019-08-04
7 May 2019 – 4 August 2019
2019-08-04
2019-05-07
Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge, UK)
http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
2019-05-07
The Beggarstaffs: James Pryde and William Nicholson
Loan-out
The Lowestoft Bowl
support: 476 × 610 mm
frame: 645 × 770 × 80 mm
Presented by the <a href="/search?gid=999999975" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Contemporary Art Society</a> 1917
<p>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/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> sits firmly within a tradition of <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 life</span></a> painting that extends from seventeenth-century Dutch depictions of fruit, vegetables, game or flowers. Like his Dutch predecessors, Nicholson was concerned with evoking his subject matter in a highly realistic fashion, and creating the illusion of three-dimensional objects in a two-dimensional picture. In this work, the viewer's attention is also drawn to the luscious surface qualities of the Lowestoft porcelain, which the artist has captured in paint.
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2004-09-08T00:00:00
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<p><b>N03178</b> THE LOWESTOFT BOWL 1911</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘Nicholson. 1911.’ b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 18 3/4×24 (47·5×61), with a  1/4 (0·75) strip of wood, thinly painted, each side.
<br/>Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1917.
<br/><i>Coll:</i>
Purchased by the C.A.S. from the artist through the Goupil Gallery 1911.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Goupil Gallery, April–May 1911 (20); <i>Loan Exhibition of Works organised by the C.A.S.</i>, Manchester, December 1911–January 1912 (77); <i>The C.A.S.: First Public Exhibition in London</i>, Goupil Gallery, April 1913 (27); National Gallery, January 1942 (45).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Browse, 1956, p.56.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>C.A.S. Report 1914–19</i>, 1920, pl.4; Nichols, 1948, pl.10.
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<br/><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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Catalogue entry
2004-07-16T00:00:00
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bowl ceramics emotions, concepts and ideas fine arts and music formal qualities kitchen objects plants and flowers plate purity tulip vessels and containers