Chalk and watercolour on paper
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Three Figures
Purchased 1942
actions: postures and motions
adults
arm / arms raised
clothing and personal items
group
groups
kneeling
male
man
nudes
objects
people
staff
paper unique chalk watercolour
Three Figures
support: 318 × 244 mm
Purchased 1942
<p><b>N05382</b> THREE FIGURES <i>c.</i> 1921</p>
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<p>Not inscribed.
<br/>Chalk and wash on buff paper, 12 1/2×9 5/8 (32×24·5).
<br/>Purchased from Miss Daisy Philpot (Knapping Fund) 1942.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> <i>68th Annual Exhibition of Water-Colour and Pencil Drawings</i>, Agnew, April 1941 (93).</p>
<p>A. C. Sewter suggests that 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/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a> was made <i>c.</i> 1921 as a preparatory study for 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 Coast of Britain’ (repr. Sewter, 1951, pl.38). ‘There is no group in the painting which corresponds to the three figures in the drawing, but on the right of the painting, a kneeling youth holding a staff and another nude man behind him seen from behind, are perhaps similar enough in general conception to suggest that the drawing might have referred to this part 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/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a>.... At this stage of his career ... Philpot was much influenced by Ricketts’ (letter of 14 November 1958).</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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2004-10-07T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions adults arm / arms raised clothing and personal items group groups kneeling male man nudes objects people staff