Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
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Chantrey Bequest
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Roofs High Holborn
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1937
agriculture, gardening & fishing
architecture
chimney
City of London
City of London, Old Bailey
court
dome
England
features
flower
Holborn, High Holborn
objects
places
plants and flowers
public and municipal
roof
townscape
townscapes / man-made features
UK countries and regions
UK London
window box
painting oil paint canvas
Roofs, High Holborn
support: 1346 × 1473 mm
Presented by the Trustees of the <a href="/search?gid=999999977" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Chantrey Bequest</a> 1937
<p><b>N04894</b> ROOFS, HIGH HOLBORN <i>c.</i> 1937
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Lily D. Joseph’ b.r.
<br/>Canvas, 53×58 (135×147).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1937.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1937 (398); <i>Solomon J. Solomon and Lily Delissa Joseph</i>, Ben Uri Art Gallery, May 1946 (25, repr.).</p>
<p>Ruth Gollancz wrote in the Introduction to the Ben Uri Art Gallery catalogue that the artist excelled particularly in pictures of London: ‘It was with a palette almost exclusively of white, cobalt, rose madder and a special and remarkable colour, orange madder (only made by the firm of Newman, which has now gone out of existence) that she worked her magic.’ The Hon. Mrs Ewen Montagu, niece of the artist, said that this picture was painted about 1937 from a studio in Bedford Row looking towards the Old Bailey.</p>
<p>Another version of the same view was exhibited at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, <i>Jewish Artists in England 1656–1956</i>, November–December 1956 (19), lent by Mrs G. Salaman and dated <i>c.</i>
1936.</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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Catalogue entry
2004-07-20T00:00:00
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agriculture, gardening & fishing architecture chimney City of London City of London, Old Bailey court dome England features flower Holborn, High Holborn objects places plants and flowers public and municipal roof townscape townscapes / man-made features UK countries and regions UK London window box