Tempera on canvas
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Presented by Sir Edward Marsh through the Contemporary Art Society 1944
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painting tempera canvas
9 November 2019 – 20 April 2020
2020-04-20
9 November 2019 – 20 April 2020
2020-04-20
2019-11-09
Museum of Somerset (Taunton, UK)
2019-11-09
Painter Pilgrim: The Art and Life of Tristram Hillier
Loan-out
Harness
support: 603 × 813 mm
frame: 835 × 1035 × 103 mm
Presented 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> 1944
<p><b>N05567</b> HARNESS 1944
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Tristram Hillier, Bayford, Wincanton’ on an envelope in the centre.
<br/>Tempera on canvas, 23 3/4×32 (60·5×81).
<br/>Presented by Sir Edward Marsh through the Contemporary Art Society 1944.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Purchased by Sir Edward Marsh through Arthur Tooth &amp; Sons for presentation to the Tate Gallery.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Worthing Art Gallery, September–October 1960 (11).
<br/><i>Repr:</i> Mervyn Levy, <i>Drawing and Painting for Young People</i>, 1960, facing p.72.</p>
<p>Painted in 1944 after the artist had been invalided out of the Royal Navy. He writes in <i>Leda and the Goose</i>, 1954, p.174: ‘The remaining months of the war I spent in a furnished cottage in Somerset. Here after the three years in which it had been impossible for me to paint, I worked, I think during every hour of daylight.’ A companion picture, ‘The Bridle’, painted in 1943, is in the National Gallery of Canada and is reproduced in <i>Leda and the Goose</i>, facing p.45.</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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