Ink and watercolour on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sir-muirhead-bone-778" aria-label="More by Sir Muirhead Bone" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Sir Muirhead Bone</a>
Mountain Background Gerona
Purchased 1930
architecture
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
Gerona
landscape
mountain
places
Spain
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
paper unique ink watercolour
23 June 2009 – 5 September 2009
2009-09-05
23 June 2009 – 5 September 2009
2009-09-05
2009-06-23
Fleming Collection (London, UK)
http://www.flemingcollection.co.uk
2009-06-23
Sir Muirhead Bone
Loan-out
The Mountain Background, Gerona
support: 235 × 355 mm
Purchased 1930
<p><b>N04558</b>	THE MOUNTAIN BACKGROUND, GERONA 1926 (?)
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<br/>Inscr. ‘M Bone’ b.r.
<br/>Pen and watercolour, 9 1/4×14 (23·5×35·5).
<br/>Purchased from P. &amp; D. Colnaghi &amp; Co. (Clarke Fund) 1930.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> <i>Spain</i>, Colnaghi, October–November 1930 (26, repr.).
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Artwork</i>, No.24, 1930, p.292.</p>
<p>The artist, together with his wife Gertrude Bone, made repeated visits to Spain over a number of years, preparing the <i>de luxe</i> publication <i>Old Spain</i> of 1936 (see Gertrude Bone, <i>Days in Old Spain</i>, 1938). 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/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a> was perhaps made during a visit to Gerona in 1926.</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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Catalogue entry
2004-10-06T00:00:00
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architecture cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents Gerona landscape mountain places Spain townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features