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Old Troubadour
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1933
actions: postures and motions
adults
architecture
arts and entertainment
fine arts and music
garden
garden structures
individuals: male
instrument, guitar
leisure and pastimes
man, old
music
music and entertainment
musician
named individuals
objects
people
portraits
Simoncelli, Torquato
singing
sitting
work and occupations
painting oil paint canvas
The Old Troubadour
support: 533 × 648 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> 1933
<p><b>N04704</b> THE OLD TROUBADOUR 1926
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<br/>Inscr. ‘C. Klinghoffer’ b.r.
<br/>Canvas, 21×25 1/2 (53·5×65).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1933.
<br/><i>Exh:</i>
Women's International Art Club, February–March 1928 (141); (?) Nationale Kunsthandel, Amsterdam, April–May 1928 (10), as ‘Torquato de Troubadour’; Redfern Gallery, May–June 1929 (19); R.A., 1933 (723).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> J. B. Manson, ‘Clara Klinghoffer’ in <i>Studio</i>, XCIV, 1927, p.413, repr. p.415 (in colour).</p>
<p>The artist wrote (16 February 1958): ‘My husband and I spent the summer and autumn of 1926 in Menton-Garavan, close to the Italian border. It was there, at the border, that we met old Torquato Simoncelli, singing and playing on his guitar. This gentle and lovable old man came to sit for me on the terrace of our Villa, after his day's work as a Troubadour was over (generally in the late afternoon). He sang, reminisced and played while I painted.... I did paint a second picture of him in another pose (this picture I still have).’ The second version may have been the picture exhibited in Amsterdam.</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: postures and motions adults architecture arts and entertainment fine arts and music garden garden structures individuals: male instrument, guitar leisure and pastimes man, old music music and entertainment musician named individuals objects people portraits Simoncelli, Torquato singing sitting work and occupations