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Deposition Cross
Presented by Viscount Bearsted through the Art Fund 1918
actions: expressive
actions: postures and motions
adults
Bible: New Testament
birth to death
Christ
death
Deposition
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
grief
kneeling
landscape
man
people
religion and belief
rocky
society
supporting
woman
painting oil paint canvas
Deposition from the Cross
support: 711 × 571 mm
Presented by Viscount Bearsted through the <a href="/search?gid=999999968" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Art Fund</a> 1918
<p><b>N03325</b>	DEPOSITION FROM THE CROSS <i>c.</i> 1915</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘CR’ in monogram b.r., and on back of canvas ‘The Deposition C. Ricketts Red Cross Sale 1918’.
<br/>Canvas, 28×22 1/2 (71×57) painted surface turned over 1 1/2 (4) on the left and 2 (5) on the right.
<br/>Presented by Viscount Bearsted through the National Art-Collections Fund 1918.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Sent by the artist to the Red Cross Sale, Christie's, 13 April 1918 (902), bt. Viscount Bearsted.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> International Society, spring 1915 (31).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Ricketts, 1939, p.292; Sturge Moore, 1933, n.p.</p>
<p>One of a number of religious subjects painted by Ricketts, though, as Sturge Moore pointed out, he was an unbeliever. A ‘Moonlight Deposition’ is mentioned as early as 1904 in <i>Selfportrait</i>, p.112, but that may have been another rendering of the subject, probably the ‘Descent from the Cross’ exhibited at the International Society, 1905 (232). A ‘Crucifixion’ is in York Minster.</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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actions: expressive actions: postures and motions adults Bible: New Testament birth to death Christ death Deposition emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas grief kneeling landscape man people religion and belief rocky society supporting woman