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Greek Dance in a Landscape
Purchased 1942
adults
countries and continents
dance
figure
Greece
landscape
leisure and pastimes
music and entertainment
people
places
rocky
wooded
painting oil paint metal
Greek Dance in a Landscape
support: 302 × 1460 mm
Purchased 1942
<p><b>André Bauchant</b><span> 1873-1958 </span>
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<p><span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/bauchant-greek-dance-in-a-landscape-n05319" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05319</span></a> </span><b>Danse grecque dans un Paysage</b><span>
(Greek Dance in a Landscape) 1937 </span>
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<p><span>Inscribed 'A. Bauchant | 1937' b.l.</span>
<br/><span>Oil on copper, 11 7/8 x 15 1/2 (30 x 39.5)</span>
<br/><span>Purchased from H.T. de Vere Clifton through the Leicester Galleries (Knapping Fund) 1942</span>
<br/><i>Prov:</i><span>
With Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris (purchased from the artist 1937); through Arthur Tooth and Sons, London; H.T. de Vere Clifton, Lytham, 1937</span>
<br/><i>Exh:</i><span>
</span><i>New Year Exhibition</i><span>, Leicester Galleries, London, January 1942 (106); </span><i>The Tate Gallery's Wartime Acquisitions</i><span>, National Gallery, London, April-May 1942 (5); </span><i>A Selection from the Tate Gallery's Wartime Acquisitions</i><span>, CEMA touring exhibition, September 1942-September 1943 (5)</span>
<br/><i>Repr:</i><span>
John Rothenstein, </span><i>Modern Foreign Pictures in the Tate Gallery</i><span> (London 1949), pl.97 </span>
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<p><span>This picture has also been known as '<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/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>Landscape</span></a>'; the title used here was suggested by the artist in a letter of May 1953. </span>
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<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><span>Ronald Alley, </span><i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</i><span>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.33-4, reproduced p.33 </span>
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adults countries and continents dance figure Greece landscape leisure and pastimes music and entertainment people places rocky wooded