Pastel on paper
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Contemporary Art Society
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/henry-tonks-2055" aria-label="More by Henry Tonks" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Henry Tonks</a>
Toilet
Presented by Geoffrey Blackwell through the Contemporary Art Society 1915
paper unique pastel
3 October 2019 – 5 January 2020
2020-01-05
3 October 2019 – 5 January 2020
2020-01-05
2019-10-03
Fundación MAPFRE (Barcelona, Spain)
2019-10-03
The Pastel: The Renaissance of an art
Loan-out
The Toilet
support: 330 × 441 mm
frame: 565 × 680 × 30 mm
Presented by Geoffrey Blackwell through the <a href="/search?gid=999999975" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Contemporary Art Society</a> 1915
<p><b>N03016</b> THE TOILET <i>c</i>. 1914
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<br/>Not inscribed.
<br/>Pastel, 13×17 3/8 (33×44·25).
<br/>Presented by Geoffrey Blackwell through the Contemporary Art Society 1915.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> N.E.A.C., winter 1914 (164).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Hone, 1939, p.81.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Burlington Magazine</i>, XXXIX, 1921, p.142, pl.2<i>c.</i></p>
<p>The theme of this work was a favourite one with the artist and he painted several oils, including one dating from 1896. The style of <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/tonks-the-toilet-n03016" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N03016</span></a> suggests that it is contemporary with <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/tonks-auguste-rodin-n03017" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N03017</span></a> and <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/tonks-madame-rodin-n03018" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N03018</span></a>, i.e. <i>c</i>. 1914, and an annotated <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/n/new-english-art-club" title="Glossary definition for 'New English Art Club'"><span>N.E.A.C</span></a>. exhibition catalogue of 1914 in the Tate Gallery library contains a description of exhibit No.164 which clearly relates to this work: ‘<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/pastel" title="Glossary definition for 'Pastel'"><span>pastel</span></a>, nude girl on sofa and girl dressed at the glass’.</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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