Oil paint on canvas
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Yellow Washstand
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1940
actions: processes and functions
adults
bed
bedroom
bowl
chair
clock
domestic
female
fireplace
furnishings
heating and lighting
individuals: female
interiors
jug
named individuals
nudes
objects
people
portraits
scientific and measuring
Spurrier
vessels and containers
wash-stand
washing / drying
woman
painting oil paint canvas
Yellow Wash-stand
support: 546 × 654 mm
frame: 660 × 762 × 40 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> 1940
<p><b>N05339</b> YELLOW WASH-STAND 1939</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘Spurrier’ b.l.
<br/>Oil on canvas laid on plywood, 21 1/2×25 3/4 (54·5×65).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1940.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1940 (671).</p>
<p>The artist wrote (14 February 1958) that the picture was probably painted from sketches made during the time he and his wife had a small cottage at West Wittering, Sussex, in 1939. ‘I have made countless <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/g/graphite" title="Glossary definition for 'Graphite'"><span>pencil</span></a> notes of all sorts of incidents, and the ideas for my pictures evolve from them and my imagination. I seldom paint a picture with the subject in front of me but from sketches and memory. The “Yellow Wash-stand” is no exception to the rule.’</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: processes and functions adults bed bedroom bowl chair clock domestic female fireplace furnishings heating and lighting individuals: female interiors jug named individuals nudes objects people portraits scientific and measuring Spurrier vessels and containers washing / drying wash-stand woman