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Bequeathed by Mrs Margaret Wynne Nevinson 1932
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<p>This portrait was painted while Nevinson was studying at the Slade School of Art and may have been used to attract potential patrons. The influence of his teacher at the Slade, Henry Tonks, is evident in the attention to detail with which he has painted his facial features. His striking profile, set against a dark background, is reminiscent of portraits by the Italian Renaissance artist, Sandro Botticelli.</p><p>Nevinson later became involved with the Futurist Movement, contributing to the publication Vital English Art with Marinetti in 1914.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint wood
3 November 2003 – 19 January 2004
2004-01-19
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2003-11-03
Portraits of Artists
Collection based display
1 September 2011 – 31 January 2012
2012-01-31
1 September 2011 – 31 January 2012
2012-01-31
2011-09-01
Kunsthal Rotterdam (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
2011-09-01
Stanley Spencer
Loan-out
5 June 2013 – 22 September 2013
2013-09-22
5 June 2013 – 22 September 2013
2013-09-22
2013-06-05
Dulwich Picture Gallery (London, UK)
2013-06-05
A Crisis of Brilliance
Loan-out
Self-Portrait
support: 311 × 232 mm
frame: 506 × 425 × 39 mm
Bequeathed by Mrs Margaret Wynne Nevinson 1932
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<span class="text15">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/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portrait</span></a> was painted while  Nevinson was studying      at the Slade</span><span class="text0"> School of Art and may have been      used  </span><span class="text14">to attract potential patrons. The      influence</span><span class="text0"> of his teacher at the Slade, Henry      Tonks,  is evident in the attention to detail with which he has painted his      facial features. His striking profile, set against a dark </span><span class="text14">background, is reminiscent of portraits </span><span class="text0">
by the Italian <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/renaissance" title="Glossary definition for 'Renaissance'"><span>Renaissance</span></a> artist,  Sandro Botticelli.  </span>
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<span class="text0">Nevinson later became involved with  </span><span class="text14">the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/f/futurism" title="Glossary definition for 'Futurism'"><span>Futurist</span></a> Movement, contributing to</span><span class="text0">
the publication </span><span class="text16">Vital English Art</span><span class="text0"> with Marinetti in 1914. </span>
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<p><b>N04672</b> SELF-PORTRAIT 1911</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘CRWN II’ in monogram b.l., the figures flanking the letters, in black, and ‘1911’ b.l. and ‘C. R. W. Nevinson’ b.r. in pale pink.
<br/>Oil on panel with bevelled edges (save on r.) painted on except at bottom, 12 1/4×9 1/8 (31·25×23).
<br/>Bequeathed by the artist's mother Mrs Margaret Wynne Nevinson 1932.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> N.E.A.C., winter 1912 (170); (?) London Group, November–December 1916 (96), as ‘Portrait of a Very Young Man’.
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Nevinson, 1937, p.118, repr. facing p.216.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> O[sbert] S[itwell], <i>C. R. W. Nevinson</i>, 1925, pl.2; <i>Apollo</i>, VIII, 1928, p.258.</p>
<p>The date and signature in pink do not appear in any of the reproductions listed above (which seem to be from two different <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/photograph" title="Glossary definition for 'Photograph'"><span>photographs</span></a>) and were probably added some time after the picture was painted. The copy of the 1916 <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/london-group" title="Glossary definition for 'London Group'"><span>London Group</span></a> catalogue in the Tate Gallery Library is annotated, at No.96, ‘Himself’ and ‘Like an old Italian <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/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portrait</span></a>’, which fairly accurately describes the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a> and finished technique of this picture.</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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2004-10-06T00:00:00
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