Hoptonwood stone
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/eric-gill-1168" aria-label="More by Eric Gill" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Eric Gill</a>
Crucifixion
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1920
actions: postures and motions
adults
arm / arms raised
Bible: New Testament
Bible: Old Testament
Christ
Crucifixion
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
Greek text
inscriptions
Latin text
male
man
Matthew, chapter 19
mysticism
nudes
people
Psalms, 147
religion and belief
serenity
spirituality
symbols and personifications
<p>Gill was one of several sculptors in Britain and abroad who pioneered the revival of the traditional skill of carving in wood and stone. Like many modern artists, he drew inspiration from what was then seen as ‘primitive’ art. This included non-western carvings and ancient and Medieval European art. This work can be related to medieval English carvings and to the work of Paul Gauguin, which was itself influenced by African and Polynesian art.</p><p><em>Gallery label, July 2007</em></p>
relief hoptonwood stone
30 August 2004 – 13 August 2007
2007-08-13
30 August 2004
2004-08-30
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2004-08-30
On England
Collection based display
24 October 2009 – 24 January 2010
2010-01-24
24 October 2009 – 24 January 2010
2010-01-24
2009-10-24
Royal Academy of Arts (London, UK)
http://www.royalacademy.org.uk
2009-10-24
WILD THING: Jacob Epstein, Henri Gaudier Brzeska and Eric Gill
Loan-out
1 September 2011 – 31 January 2012
2012-01-31
1 September 2011 – 31 January 2012
2012-01-31
2011-09-01
Kunsthal Rotterdam (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
2011-09-01
Stanley Spencer
Loan-out
11 February 2016 – 11 February 2017
2017-02-11
11 February 2016 – 11 February 2017
2017-02-11
2016-02-11
New Art Gallery Walsall (Walsall, UK)
http://www.artatwalsall.org.uk/
2016-02-11
Interventions into The Garman Ryan Collection
Loan-out
9 April 2025 – 28 September 2025
2025-09-28
9 April 2025 – 28 September 2025
2025-09-28
2025-04-09
Towner (Eastbourne, UK)
http://www.townereastbourne.org.uk/
2025-04-09
Provincial! Modernism to the Mods
Loan-out
Crucifixion
object: 946 × 781 × 127 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> 1920
<p>Gill was one of several sculptors in Britain and abroad who pioneered the revival of the traditional skill of carving in wood and stone. Like many modern artists, he drew inspiration from what was then seen as ‘primitive’ art. This included non-western carvings and ancient and Medieval European art. This work can be related to medieval English carvings and to the work of Paul Gauguin, which was itself influenced by African and Polynesian art.</p>

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<p><b>N03563</b> CRUCIFIXION 1910
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<br/>Incised on the back with the symbol of an eye on a hand. On the front, to left and right of the upright of the cross, there is an inscription in Greek from Matthew xix. 12, and on the upright itself a Latin inscription from Psalm cxlvii, v. 10.
<br/>Hoptonwood stone relief, 37 1/4×30 3/4×5 (94·5×78×13).
<br/>Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1920.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Purchased by the C.A.S. at the Chenil Gallery 1911.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> <i>Sculptures by Mr Eric Gill and Landscapes by Mr J. D. Innes</i>, Chenil Gallery, January 1911 (10), as ‘A Crucifix’; C.A.S., <i>Loan Exhibition</i>, Manchester, winter 1911 (273); C.A.S., <i>Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings</i>, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, October 1912 (245).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Stanley Casson, <i>Some Modern Sculptors</i>, 1928, p.93.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> Rothenstein, 1927, pl.4; Thorp, 1929, pl.1.</p>
<p>This is one of a pair 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/r/relief" title="Glossary definition for 'Relief'"><span>reliefs</span></a> made in 1910. The companion entitled ‘A Roland for an Oliver’ was exhibited at the same time at the Chenil Gallery and was also acquired by the C.A.S. It represents a nude woman and bears an inscription from Swinburne's <i>Hymn to Proserpine</i>, lines 35 and 23–4. Walter Shewring records (letter of 19 July 1953), ‘In an unpublished letter to his brother Vernon E.G. wrote: “They are a pair - one being a symbol of renunciation and the other a symbol of acceptance.”’</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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Catalogue entry
2004-10-05T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions adults arm / arms raised Bible: New Testament Bible: Old Testament Christ Crucifixion emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas Greek text inscriptions Latin text male man Matthew, chapter 19 mysticism nudes people Psalms, 147 religion and belief serenity spirituality symbols and personifications