Watercolour, graphite and gouache on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/dame-ethel-walker-2115" aria-label="More by Dame Ethel Walker" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Dame Ethel Walker</a>
Two Figures Excursion Nausicaa
Purchased 1924
actions: postures and motions
actions: processes and functions
adults
arm / arms raised
carrying / holding
female
jar
nudes
objects
people
standing
vessels and containers
woman
paper unique watercolour graphite gouache
Two Figures, Study for ‘The Excursion of Nausicaa’
support: 400 × 229 mm
Purchased 1924
<p><b>N03874</b> TWO FIGURES, STUDY FOR DECORATION: THE EXCURSION OF NAUSICAA <i>c.</i> 1919
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<br/>Not inscribed.
<br/>Pencil and watercolour, 15 3/4×9 (40×23).
<br/>Purchased from the Goupil Gallery (Duveen Drawings Fund) 1924.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> <i>Ethel Walker, Charles Ginner, Louise Pickard</i>, Goupil Gallery, January 1924 (included among Nos.13–14, ‘Studies of the Nude, etc.’); <i>Ethel Walker, Frances Hodgkins, Gwen John</i>, Tate Gallery, May–June 1952 (45), and Arts Council tour, 1952 (44).</p>
<p>One of many studies for <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/walker-decoration-the-excursion-of-nausicaa-n03885" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N03885</span></a>. A nude study for ‘Nausicaa’ was included in the N.E.A.C., summer 1919 (142).</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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2004-07-20T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions actions: processes and functions adults arm / arms raised carrying / holding female jar nudes objects people standing vessels and containers woman