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Val dAosta
Presented by Miss Emily Sargent 1935
Alps
cloud
countries and continents
Italy, Valle d’Aosta
landscape
mountain
natural features (non-UK)
places
rocky
weather
painting oil paint canvas
19 December 2003 – 17 April 2004
2004-04-17
19 December 2003 – 17 April 2004
2004-04-17
2003-12-19
Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (Rovereto, Italy)
http://www.mart.trento.it
2003-12-19
Montana: From Leonardo to Beuys, between Science and Art
Loan-out
31 October 2022 – 24 September 2023
2023-09-24
31 October 2022
2022-10-31
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2022-10-31
Annie Swynnerton
Collection based display
Val d’Aosta
support: 921 × 978 mm
frame: 1151 × 1220 × 113 mm
Presented by Miss Emily Sargent 1935
<p><b>N04791</b> VAL D'AOSTA <i>c.</i> 1908–10</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘John S. Sargent’ b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 36 1/4×38 1/2 (92×98); painted strip 2 1/2 (6·5) wide turned under at bottom.
<br/>Presented by Miss Emily Sargent 1935.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Miss Emily Sargent.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> <i>53rd Autumn Exhibition</i>, Liverpool, September–December 1925 (121), as ‘Mont Blanc’; R.A., winter 1926 (340), as ‘Mont Blanc’; York, March–May 1926 (43), as ‘Mont Blanc’; Aberdeen Artists' Society, Aberdeen, 1926 (273), as ‘Mont Blanc’.
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Charteris, 1927, p.170; Mount, 1955, p.449; Mount, 1957, p.359.</p>
<p>A view up the Val d'Aosta, with Mont Blanc as the highest peak in the centre distance. The date 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/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> has been variously given as 1908 or 1910; it is related stylistically to ‘The Black Brook’ of <i>c.</i> 1908 (No.4783). Although exhibited as ‘Mont Blanc’, the painting was called ‘Val d'Aosta’ by Miss Emily Sargent (letter to the Hon. Sir Evan Charteris, 20 March 1935).</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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Catalogue entry
2004-10-06T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
Alps cloud countries and continents Italy, Valle d’Aosta landscape mountain natural features (non-UK) places rocky weather