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Voyages Moon
Purchased 1951
astronomy
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
France
furnishings
heating and lighting
interiors
light / lamp
mirror
moon
night
objects
places
places of entertainment
restaurant
times of the day
Toulon
<p>This painting is based on a drawing Nash made in Toulon of electric globe ceiling lamps repeatedly reflected in the mirrored walls of a restaurant. Such circular motifs are commonly found in the work of many British artists in this period, for example, in Nicholson's abstract paintings and Moore's and Hepworth's sculptures. Nash included rounded shapes in many of his paintings, as a ball, or as a boulder on the ground, or as the moon.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
23 July 2003 – 19 October 2003
2003-10-19
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2003-07-23
Paul Nash: Modern Artist, Ancient Landscape
Exhibition
22 December 2007 – 8 November 2009
2009-11-08
22 December 2007 – 8 November 2009
2009-11-08
2007-12-22
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2007-12-22
Objects and Materials
Collection based display
23 January 2010 – 21 March 2010
2010-03-21
23 January 2010 – 21 March 2010
2010-03-21
2010-01-23
Towner (Eastbourne, UK)
http://www.townereastbourne.org.uk/
2010-01-23
Dark Monarch; Magic and Modernity in British Art
Loan-out
28 October 2010 – 18 November 2012
2012-11-18
28 October 2010 – 18 November 2012
2012-11-18
2010-10-28
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2010-10-28
Gallery 14
Collection based display
23 April 2011 – 26 June 2011
2011-06-26
23 April 2011 – 26 June 2011
2011-06-26
2011-04-23
Fruitmarket Gallery (Edinburgh, UK)
2011-04-23
Narcissus Reflected
Loan-out
4 July 2014 – 26 October 2014
2014-10-26
4 July 2014 – 28 October 2014
2014-10-28
2014-07-04
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2014-07-04
Claude Parent
Collection based display
24 October 2016 – 31 January 2018
2018-01-31
24 October 2016 – 5 March 2017
2017-03-05
2016-10-24
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
7 April 2017 – 20 August 2017
2017-08-20
2017-04-07
Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts (Norwich, UK)
9 September 2017 – 31 January 2018
2018-01-31
2017-09-09
Laing Art Gallery (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/
2016-10-24
Paul Nash
Loan-out
26 October 2016 – 14 January 2018
2018-01-14
26 October 2016 – 5 March 2017
2017-03-05
2016-10-26
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
7 April 2017 – 20 August 2017
2017-08-20
2017-04-07
Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts (Norwich, UK)
9 September 2017 – 14 January 2018
2018-01-14
2017-09-09
Laing Art Gallery (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/
2016-10-26
Paul Nash
Exhibition
21 April 2018 – 28 October 2018
2018-10-28
21 April 2018 – 28 October 2018
2018-10-28
2018-04-21
Fondation Vincent Van Gogh (Arles, France)
2018-04-21
Paul Nash. Sunflower Rises.
Loan-out
Voyages of the Moon
support: 711 × 540 mm
frame: 946 × 743 × 95 mm
Purchased 1951
<p>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/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> is based on a <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> Nash made in Toulon of electric globe ceiling lamps repeatedly reflected in the mirrored walls of a restaurant. Such circular motifs are commonly found in the work of many British artists in this period, for example, in Nicholson's <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/a/abstract-art" title="Glossary definition for 'Abstract art'"><span>abstract</span></a> paintings and Moore's and Hepworth's <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/sculpture" title="Glossary definition for 'Sculpture'"><span>sculptures</span></a>. Nash included rounded shapes in many of his paintings, as a ball, or as a boulder on the ground, or as the moon.</p>
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2004-08-31T00:00:00
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<p><b>N06024</b> VOYAGES OF THE MOON 1934–7</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘Paul Nash 1934’ and ‘PN’ in monogram b.r.
<br/>Canvas, 28×21 1/4 (73·5×54).
<br/>Purchased from the artist's widow (Knapping Fund) 1951.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> <i>Unit One Exhibition</i>, Hanley, 1934 (40); C.E.M.A. tour, <i>Forty Painters</i>, 1941 (27); Redfern Gallery, January 1944 (22); <i>Artists for Victory</i>, Grand Central Galleries, New York and U.S. tour, 1944; Tate Gallery, March–May 1948 (44); Canada, 1949–50 (14).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Eric Newton, ‘Paul Nash’ in <i>The 1943 Saturday Book</i>, 1943, p.140, repr. facing p.142; Eates, 1948, p.78, repr. pl.81; Bertram, 1955, p.247; Rothenstein, 1961, at pl.5, repr. (in colour).</p>
<p>Exhibited in 1934 as ‘Formal Dream’, which is the title written in the artist's hand on the back of a <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/photograph" title="Glossary definition for 'Photograph'"><span>photograph</span></a> showing an earlier stage in the evolution of the <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/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a>; the subsequent alterations can now be seen as pentimenti. At that time the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a> was slightly more complex, with a band round the largest moon and two branching uprights on the right, and the uppermost moon was lacking; the painting bore the artist's monogram, but not the date and full signature. ‘1934’ may thus have been inscribed retrospectively to mark the year in which the painting was begun and first exhibited; the finished painting, under the title ‘Voyages of the Moon’, has always been dated 1937 with the artist's approval. For another example of a painting worked on over a number of years while it remained in the artist's possession see <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/nash-pillar-and-moon-n05392" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05392</span></a>.</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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Catalogue entry
2004-10-08T00:00:00
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astronomy cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents France furnishings heating and lighting interiors light / lamp mirror moon night objects places places of entertainment restaurant times of the day Toulon