Watercolour and ink on paper
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The Rake’s Progress
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Meeting
Purchased 1940
actions: postures and motions
adults
man
people
standing
woman
paper unique watercolour ink
The Meeting
support: 190 × 159 mm
Purchased 1940
<p><b>A01030</b> THE RAKE'S PROGRESS 1931</p>
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<br/>(ii) THE MEETING
<br/>Inscr. ‘E. Ardizzone 31’ b.r.
<br/>Watercolour, pen and ink, 7 1/2×6 1/4 (19×16).
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<br/>Five designs, purchased from the Nicholson Gallery (Knapping Fund) 1940.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Leger Gallery, June 1931 (33–7); <i>Water Colours by Modern English and French Artists</i>, Mayor Gallery, November 1937 (10–14); Nicholson Gallery, March–April 1940 (12–16).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> D. W. Last, ‘Edward Ardizzone: a first one-man show at the Leger Gallery’ in <i>Studio</i>, CII, 1931, p.36.</p>
<p>Although designed as a series these were not intended for book illustrations. They should not be regarded as moralities in the way that Hogarth's <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> of the same subject were, but rather as mildly satirical reportage.</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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actions: postures and motions adults man people standing woman