Pastel and chalk on paper
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Elephants
Purchased 1924
adults
animals: mammals
architecture
audience
circus
circus
elephant
figure
groups
Islington, Royal Agricultural Hall
leisure and pastimes
music and entertainment
people
places
places of entertainment
UK London
paper unique pastel chalk
Elephants
support: 190 × 533 mm
Purchased 1924
<p><b>N04008</b> ELEPHANTS 1924
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<br/>Not inscribed.
<br/>Pastel and chalk, 7 1/2×21 (19×53).
<br/>Purchased from the Redfern Gallery (Duveen Drawings Fund) 1924.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Redfern Gallery, November 1924 (16).</p>
<p>The artist wrote (12 January 1961) that 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/pastel" title="Glossary definition for 'Pastel'"><span>pastel</span></a> was done shortly before the Redfern Gallery exhibition and depicts the performing elephants in a circus which used to be held annually every January and February at the Royal Agricultural Hall, Islington. The circus was known as the ‘World's Fair’, and was a popular London festival dating back to at least the 1880s.</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</p>
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2004-10-05T00:00:00
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adults animals: mammals architecture audience circus circus elephant figure groups Islington, Royal Agricultural Hall leisure and pastimes music and entertainment people places places of entertainment UK London