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Silver
Purchased 1938
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<p>Many of Nicholson's still lifes show his love of lustrous surfaces. In them be explores how varied textures reflect light in different ways. Here this is seen admirably in the contrast between the finer silver of the salver in comparison to that of the teapot and hot water pot. This is one of several paintings that Nicholson made for E.V.Lucas, the essayist and assistant editor of Punch, who died in 1938.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint wood
30 November 2001 – 24 February 2002
2002-02-24
30 November 2001 – 24 February 2002
2002-02-24
2001-11-30
Galleria d’Arte Moderna  (Bologna, Italy)
http://www.galleriadartemoderna.bo.it
2001-11-30
La Natura Della Natura Morta
Loan-out
7 May 2019 – 4 August 2019
2019-08-04
7 May 2019 – 4 August 2019
2019-08-04
2019-05-07
Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge, UK)
http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
2019-05-07
The Beggarstaffs: James Pryde and William Nicholson
Loan-out
Silver
support: 438 × 571 mm
frame: 610 × 740 × 95 mm
Purchased 1938
<p>Many of Nicholson's <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/still-life" title="Glossary definition for 'Still life'"><span>still lifes</span></a> show his love of  lustrous surfaces. In them be explores how varied  textures reflect light in different ways. Here  this is seen admirably in the contrast between the  finer silver of the salver in comparison to that  of the teapot and hot water pot.<br/> This is one of several <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>paintings</span></a> that Nicholson  made for E.V.Lucas, the essayist and assistant  editor of Punch, who died in 1938.</p>
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<p><b>N04936</b> SILVER 1938</p>
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<br/>Oil on panel, 17 1/4×22 1/2 (43·5×57).
<br/>Purchased from Miss Marguerite Steen through the Matthiesen Gallery (Clarke Fund) 1938.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> E. V. Lucas, bequeathed to Miss Marguerite Steen 1938.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> <i>Still Life and Flower Paintings of the Old and Modern Masters</i>, Matthiesen Gallery, June–July 1938 (71), as ‘Silver on a white cloth’.
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Browse, 1956, pp.26 and 112, repr. pl.46.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> Sir John Rothenstein, <i>British Art since 1900</i>, 1962, pl.12.</p>
<p>Painted for the writer E. V. Lucas in 1938 (letter from Miss Marguerite Steen, 22 July 1958) and exhibited at Matthiesen's as of that year. An oil <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> of ‘Silver Teapots’, similar to the left-hand half of No.4936 and measuring 13×16 1/2 in., was sold at Christie's, 13 July 1964 (371), bt. Bravington.</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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domestic fork kitchen knife miscellaneous objects paper spoon tea pot tray