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Sheeps Skull and Ferns
Presented by Lady Matthews 1940
animals: features
fern
plants and flowers
skull
painting oil paint canvas
Sheep’s Skull and Ferns
support: 406 × 508 mm
Presented by Lady Matthews 1940
<p><b>N05123</b> SHEEP'S SKULL AND FERNS 1935
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<br/>Inscr. on back of canvas, ‘Catherine Dean. Skull and Trees’.
<br/>Canvas, 16×20 (40×50).
<br/>Presented by Lady Matthews 1940.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Purchased by Lady Matthews from the artist.</p>
<p>The artist wrote (3 June 1956): ‘Painted in September 1935 in a field at Trelagan, Flintshire, N. Wales, where my husband was <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> colliers at the Point of Air Colliery.’</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, I</p>
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2004-10-07T00:00:00
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animals: features fern plants and flowers skull