Graphite and watercolour on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/james-havard-thomas-546" aria-label="More by James Havard Thomas" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">James Havard Thomas</a>
Offering
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1917
actions: expressive
adults
agriculture and fishing
agriculture, gardening & fishing
basket
clothing and personal items
farm labourer
flirtation
food and drink
fruit, grape
hat
headscarf
man
objects
people
scythe
sex and relationships
smiling
society
vessels and containers
woman
work and occupations
paper unique graphite watercolour
The Offering
support: 660 × 571 mm
Presented by the <a href="/search?gid=999999975" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Contemporary Art Society</a> 1917
<p><b>N03184</b> THE OFFERING <i>c.</i> 1908</p>
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<br/>Inscr. ‘J. Havard Thomas del.’ b.r.
<br/>Pencil, 26×22 1/2 (66×57); the paper has been joined across 4 1/4 (10·7) from bottom.
<br/>Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1917.
<br/><i>Coll:</i>
Presented to the Contemporary Art Society by Sir Michael Sadler 1911.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Carfax &amp; Co., November 1909 (30), as ‘The Offering (Study for a Bas-relief: drawing)’; C.A.S., <i>Loan Exhibition</i>, Manchester, winter 1911 (214); C.A.S., <i>First Public Exhibition in London</i>, Goupil Gallery, April 1913 (68); C.A.S., <i>Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings</i>, Grosvenor House, June–July 1923 (186).</p>
<p>A study for the marble bas-<a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/r/relief" title="Glossary definition for 'Relief'"><span>relief</span></a> exhibited at the Royal <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>, 1908 (1929). An earlier work entitled ‘The Offering’ was exhibited at the Leicester Galleries, 1922 (58), where it was dated 1904 and described as a ‘<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> bronzed’. <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>Drawings</span></a> for ‘The Offering’ were also shown at the Leicester Galleries in 1922 (70) and at the Beaux Arts Gallery, 1936 (41).</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: expressive adults agriculture and fishing agriculture, gardening & fishing basket clothing and personal items farm labourer flirtation food and drink fruit, grape hat headscarf man objects people scythe sex and relationships smiling society vessels and containers woman work and occupations