Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
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Collection
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Annunciation
Presented by Lord Duveen 1931
actions: postures and motions
adults
angel
Annunciation
Archangel Gabriel
architecture
Bible: New Testament
domestic
door
emotional states and conditions
features
industrial and crafts
interior - non-specific
interiors
kneeling
lily
man
people
plants and flowers
purity - lily
religion and belief
sitting
spinning
symbols and personifications
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
universal religious imagery
Virgin Mary
window
woman
work and occupations
painting oil paint canvas
30 July 2018 – 14 July 2019
2019-07-14
30 July 2018 – 14 July 2019
2019-07-14
2018-07-30
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2018-07-30
Magic Realism
Exhibition
The Annunciation
support: 1617 × 1911 mm
Presented by Lord Duveen 1931
<p><b>N04593</b> THE ANNUNCIATION 1929–30
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Herbert Gurschner-Mühlau Mühlau-Amalfi 1929–30’ b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 64×75 1/2 (163×192).
<br/>Presented by Lord Duveen 1931.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Venice Biennale, 1930 (British Pavilion, 99<i>a</i> (2nd ed.)); Fine Art Society, June 1931 (62).</p>
<p>The artist wrote (12 November 1957): ‘The first Mühlau stands for Gurschner-Mühlau. I signed all my <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>paintings</span></a> this way Mühlau being my home town in the Austrian Tyrol. The second Mühlau means that I started the work there - Amalfi is the place where I finished it.’</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</p>
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-06T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: postures and motions adults angel Annunciation Archangel Gabriel architecture Bible: New Testament domestic door emotional states and conditions features industrial and crafts interior - non-specific interiors kneeling lily man people plants and flowers purity - lily religion and belief sitting spinning symbols and personifications townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features universal religious imagery Virgin Mary window woman work and occupations