Oil paint on millboard
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Lemon Gatherers
Purchased 1922
actions: processes and functions
adults
agriculture and fishing
basket
carrying / holding
countries and continents
food and drink
fruit, lemon
group
groups
harvesting
Italy, Sicily
landscape
lemon
objects
people
places
rocky
vessels and containers
woman
work and occupations
painting oil paint millboard
Lemon Gatherers
support: 565 × 813 × 4 mm
frame: 735 × 989 × 60 mm
Purchased 1922
<p><b>N03666</b> LEMON GATHERERS 1910
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<br/>Inscr. ‘D. Grant.’ b.r.
<br/>Oil on hardboard, 22 1/4×32 (565×815).
<br/>Purchased from Clive Bell (Grant-in-Aid) 1922.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Purchased by Vanessa Bell at the Friday Club.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> <i>Friday Club</i>, Alpine Club Gallery, June 1910 (catalogue untraced); <i>Twentieth Century Art</i>, Whitechapel Art Gallery, May–June 1914 (329); <i>The New Movement in Art</i>, Mansard Gallery, October 1917 (35); Tate Gallery, May–June 1959 (12).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> W. G. Constable, <i>Duncan Grant</i>, 1927, preface, n.p.; J. B. Manson, <i>The Tate Gallery</i>, 1929, p.151; Mary Chamot, <i>Modern Painting in England</i>, 1937, p.49; Mortimer, 1944, p.7; John Rothenstein, <i>Modern English Painters: Lewis to Moore</i>, 1956, p.50.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> Fry, 1923 and 1930, pl.2; <i>Tate Gallery Illustrations, British School</i>, 1938, p.104.</p>
<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> has often been seen as a reflection of Duncan Grant's visit to Tunis and Sicily in 1911, but he states that it was inspired by the Sicilian Players who appeared at the Shaftesbury Theatre in February–March 1908, and that it was painted at Fitzroy Square, where he lived 1910–11.</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
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actions: processes and functions adults agriculture and fishing basket carrying / holding countries and continents food and drink fruit, lemon group groups harvesting Italy, Sicily landscape lemon objects people places rocky vessels and containers woman work and occupations