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Sunset on Lagoon Venice
Purchased 1933
architecture
boat, sailing
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
Italy
lagoon
places
seascapes and coasts
society
sunset
times of the day
townscapes / man-made features
transport: water
Venice - non-specific
waterfront
painting oil paint canvas
Sunset on the Lagoon, Venice
support: 559 × 762 mm
Purchased 1933
<p><b>N04674</b> SUNSET ON THE LAGOON, VENICE 1925
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Alfred Hayward 1925’ b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 22×30 (56×76·5); painted area, 21 1/2×29 3/8 (54·5×74·5).
<br/>Purchased from the artist (Clarke Fund) 1933.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> N.E.A.C., April–May 1926 (210), as ‘The Lagoon, Sunset’.</p>
<p>The artist wrote (23 December 1956): ‘“Sunset on the Lagoon, Venice” was painted there when in 1925 I had a studio temporarily for some months and a gondola always at my service from which I did most of my pictures during that period in Venice. 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/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> painted in that way from the water was one of the slighter pictures done at that time.’</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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Catalogue entry
2004-10-06T00:00:00
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architecture boat, sailing cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents Italy lagoon places seascapes and coasts society sunset times of the day townscapes / man-made features transport: water Venice - non-specific waterfront