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Castagnettes 2
Bequeathed by Dr Bluett Duncan 1934
actions: postures and motions
adults
arm / arms raised
dance
leg / legs raised
leisure and pastimes
male
man
music and entertainment
nudes
people
sculpture bronze
Castagnettes No. 2
object: 337 × 267 × 135 mm
Bequeathed by Dr Bluett Duncan 1934
<p><b>N04739</b>	CASTAGNETTES NO. 2 1900</p>
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<br/>Inscr. ‘J. Havard Thomas Sc’ on top of base.
<br/>Bronze, 13 1/4×9 5/8×5 (34×24·5×13), including oval base, 3 1/4×5×4 1/8 (7·5×12·75×10·5).
<br/>Bequeathed by Dr Bluett Duncan 1934.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Purchased by Dr Bluett Duncan from the Leicester Galleries 1922.</p>
<p><i>Exh:</i> (?) Carfax &amp; Co., November 1909 (54), as ‘Castagnettes’; Leicester Galleries, April–May 1922 (48), as ‘Castagnettes, Bronze No. 2 1900.’</p>
<p>There is another <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/cast" title="Glossary definition for 'Cast'"><span>cast</span></a> at Manchester. The 1922 Memorial Exhibition also included another version of this subject, ‘Castagnettes, <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/m/metal" title="Glossary definition for 'Metal'"><span>Bronze</span></a> No. 1 1899’ (60), which was purchased by the National Gallery of Scotland; this may have been the work exhibited in 1909. It was with this figure that Havard Thomas began his experiments with wooden sections overlaid with black wax. The pose differs from that of the Tate statuette in that the right arm of the figure is held straight across the body, at right angles to the right thigh, and the body is in a more upright position.</p>
<p>Two <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>drawings</span></a>, both entitled ‘Man dancing with Castagnettes’, were Nos.3 and 32 in the Carfax Gallery exhibition, 1909. A drawing, ‘Man Dancing the Tarantella’, was No.64 in the 4th Exhibition of the Society of Twelve, 1908 (repr.), and was described as a study for a bas-<a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/r/relief" title="Glossary definition for 'Relief'"><span>relief</span></a> ‘Music and Dancing’. This shows a clothed man dancing with castagnets in his hands, and in pose is similar to <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/thomas-castagnettes-no-2-n04739" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04739</span></a> but rather less bent over in the middle; it is closer to ‘Castagnettes No. 1’.</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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actions: postures and motions adults arm / arms raised dance leg / legs raised leisure and pastimes male man music and entertainment nudes people