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Woman Reclining
Bequeathed by Sir Edward Marsh through the Contemporary Art Society 1953
actions: postures and motions
actions: processes and functions
adults
people
reclining
sleeping
woman
painting oil paint canvas
Woman Reclining
support: 597 × 730 mm
Bequeathed by Sir Edward Marsh through the <a href="/search?gid=999999975" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Contemporary Art Society</a> 1953
<p><b>N06152</b> WOMAN RECLINING <i>c.</i> 1925–6</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘MS’ b.r.
<br/>Canvas, 23 1/2×28 3/4 (60×73).
<br/>Bequeathed by Sir Edward Marsh through the Contemporary Art Society 1953.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Purchased by Sir Edward Marsh from the Lefevre Galleries 1927.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Lefevre Galleries, December 1927 (15), as ‘Reclining Figure’; Tooth's, October–November 1929 (17), as ‘Woman Reclining’; Venice Biennale, 1938 (British Pavilion, 45); C.E.M.A. (organized by the British Institute of Adult Education), <i>British Paintings 1900–1940</i>, n.d. (49), as ‘Procumbent Figure’; R.S.A., spring 1952 (268); Tate Gallery, September–October 1953 (30, repr. pl.13 in colour).
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Studio</i>, CXXXIV, 1947, p.130; Christopher Hassall and Denis Mathews (ed.), <i>Eddie Marsh - Sketches for a Composite Literary Portrait</i>, 1953, pl.8 (in colour).</p>
<p>Painted <i>c.</i> 1925–6 in Paris.</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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actions: postures and motions actions: processes and functions adults people reclining sleeping woman