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Street Scene
Purchased 1939
painting oil paint canvas
Street Scene
support: 1829 × 2146 mm
frame: 2060 × 2380 × 120 mm
Purchased 1939
<p><b>N05201</b> STREET SCENE 1933–9
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Barnett Freedman 39’ b.l. and on back of canvas ‘Canvas started Summer 1933 finished drawing Jan. 12th 1937 painting begun Jan. 18th 37, completed Jan. 23rd 39.’
<br/>Canvas, 72×84 1/2 (183×215).
<br/>Purchased from the artist (Knapping Fund) 1939.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Arts Council, October–November 1958 and provincial tour (29, repr. pl.3).
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Studio</i>, CXXII, 1941, p.63.</p>
<p>The artist said in 1956 that there had been many preliminary studies, but these had disappeared and he had no record of them. The scene was not a specific street, but 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/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a> based on various sketches done from memory. 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> of a ‘London Street Scene’ reproduced in the <i>Studio</i>, CIX, 1935, p.90, may be a variation of a similar theme. A squared-up study for the old fiddler dated 1934 was in the Arts Council Memorial exhibition 1958 (52), as well as other studies, ‘People’ 1934 (26), ‘Study for a Street Scene’ <i>c.</i> 1928 (39), and a drawing (unnumbered) lent by Sir Kenneth Clark.</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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