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Justin Reading
Purchased 1941
actions: postures and motions
adults
England
Hall, Justin Clarke
individuals: male
leisure and pastimes
male
man
named individuals
nudes
people
places
portraits
reading
reclining
recreational activities
sunbathing
sunshine
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paper unique watercolour
Justin Reading
support: 340 × 505 mm
Purchased 1941
<p><b>N05274</b> JUSTIN READING 1932
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Edna C.H. 1932’ b.l., ‘Justin. reading.’ b.r. and on reverse ‘Boy in the sun’.
<br/>Watercolour, 13 3/8×19 7/8 (34×50·5).
<br/>Purchased from the Redfern Gallery (Knapping Fund) 1941.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> (?) Redfern Gallery, April–May 1932 (42 as “Justin” or 55 as “Nude”); Manchester, June–July 1939 (207); Redfern Gallery, May 1941 (? 16 as “Study”).</p>
<p>The artist's son Justin was born in 1905. In 1932 a swimming-pool had just been built in their garden at Upminster Common. An earlier study of Justin as a boy, dated 1914, is reproduced in Wilenski, 1924, pl.5, and shows two views of his head.</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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actions: postures and motions adults England Hall, Justin Clarke individuals: male leisure and pastimes male man named individuals nudes people places portraits reading reclining recreational activities sunbathing sunshine UK countries and regions UK London Upminster weather