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First Morning
Presented by the artist and subscribers as a tribute to Belgian Art 1915
actions: postures and motions
actions: processes and functions
adults
Bible: Old Testament
Creation
Eve
female
looking down
nudes
people
religion and belief
sitting
waking
woman
sculpture marble
The First Morning
object: 1638 × 1016 × 1441 mm
Presented by the artist and subscribers as a tribute to Belgian Art 1915
<p><b>Egide Rombaux</b> 1865-1942</p>
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/rombaux-the-first-morning-n03031" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N03031</span></a> <b>Le Premier Matin</b> (The First Morning) 1913
</p><p>Inscribed 'EGIDE ROMBAUX' on back of base 
<br/>Marble, 64 ½ x 40 x 56 ¾ (164 x 101.5 x 144) 
<br/>Presented by artists and other subscribers as a tribute to Belgian Art 1915 
<br/><i>Prov</i>: Purchased by the donors from the artist for £800 
<br/><i>Exh</i>: Salon du Printemps, Palais du Cinquantenaire, Brussels, April-June 1913 (635, repr.); XI Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte della Città di Venezia, Venice, April-October 1914 (Belgium 177); RA, London, May-August 1915 (1906) 
<br/><i>Lit</i>: <i>Studio</i>, LXVI, 1915, p.47; L. Grandmoulin, 'Notice sur Egide Rombaux' in <i>Annuaire de l'Académie Royale de Belgique</i>, CXVII, 1951, pp.271, 284 
<br/><i>Repr: Colour</i>, III, 1915, p.56; Jean Delville and others, <i>Belgian Art in Exile</i> (London 1916), n.p.; Marguerite Devigne, <i>La Sculpture Belge, 1830-1930</i> (Brussels 1934), fig.55</p>
<p>According to Grandmoulin, Rombaux considered 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/s/sculpture" title="Glossary definition for 'Sculpture'"><span>sculpture</span></a> to be his finest work. The subject is Eve waking from sleep on the first morning after the Creation. A sketch in <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/plaster-of-paris" title="Glossary definition for 'Plaster of Paris'"><span>plaster</span></a> 58.5cm high and a small study in terracotta belong to the Mus?es Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels.</p>
<p>The gift was due to the action of 'Sir Edward Poynter, the President, and various Members and Associates 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/a/academy" title="Glossary definition for 'Academy'"><span>Academy</span></a>, including Sir Thomas Brock, Sir W. Goscombe John, Mr Hamo Thornycroft, Mr D.Y. Cameron, Mr Hughes-Stanton, Mr W.B. Richmond, Mr John Lavery, Sir Aston Webb, and Sir E.A. Waterlow, who decided to raise a fund to enable the statue to be retained in England' (<i>Studio</i>, loc. cit.).</p>
<p><b>Published in</b>: 
<br/>Ronald Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.651, reproduced p.651</p>

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actions: postures and motions actions: processes and functions adults Bible: Old Testament Creation Eve female looking down nudes people religion and belief sitting waking woman