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House in Santiago
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1924
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8 May 2014 – 5 January 2015
2015-01-05
8 May 2014 – 7 September 2014
2014-09-07
2014-05-08
Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec (Québec, Canada)
http://www.mnba.qc.ca
2014-05-08
Morrice and Lyman in Light of Matisse
Loan-out
House in Santiago
support: 540 × 648 mm
frame: 741 × 842 × 68 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> 1924
<strong>James Wilson Morrice</strong> 1865-1924
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<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/morrice-house-in-santiago-n03842" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N03842</span></a> <strong>House in Santiago</strong> 1915
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Inscribed 'Morrice' b.l.<br/>
Oil on canvas, 21 1/4 x 25 1/2 (54 x 65)<br/>
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1924<br/>
<em>Prov:</em> Purchased by the CAS 1916<br/>
<em>Exh:</em> <em>Modern Paintings, Drawings and Etchings</em>, Leicester Art Gallery, autumn 1919 (120); <em>Exhibition of Advanced Art ... arranged in Connection with the CAS and Private Owners</em>, Art Gallery, Derby, April-June 1920 (151); <em>CAS: Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings held at Grosvenor House</em>, Grosvenor House, London, June-July 1923 (91); <em>Acquisitions of the CAS</em>, Tate Gallery, September-October 1946 (43)<br/>
<em>Lit:</em> Donald W. Buchanan, <em>James Wilson Morrice</em> (Toronto 1936), pp.124-5, 176
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Morrice visited Cuba for the first time early in 1915 and this picture was acquired by the Contemporary Art Society in the following year. According to Buchanan, op. cit., it was presented to the Tate in 1924 by Lord Henry Cavendish-Bentinck through the Contemporary Art Society, on the advice of Roger Fry, but the Society's records show that it was purchased in 1916 from an unrecorded source.
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There is a preliminary <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/g/graphite" title="Glossary definition for 'Graphite'"><span>pencil</span></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/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a> in Morrice's 'Sketchbook No.10' in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and a small study in oil on <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/panel" title="Glossary definition for 'Panel'"><span>panel</span></a>, 12.5 x 15cm, very similar in <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> to the finished work, is in a Montreal private collection (exh. <em>James Wilson Morrice 1865-1924</em>, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, September-October 1965, no.109 repr.).
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<strong>Published in:</strong><br/>
Ronald Alley, <em>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</em>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.542-3, reproduced p.542
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adults architecture cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents Cuba house man people places residential Santiago tree