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Mans Land
Presented by C.R. Churchill 1953
abstraction
animals: birds
astronomy
bird - non-specific
field
figure
from recognisable sources
landscape
moon
night
organic
plants and flowers
thorn
times of the day
painting oil paint canvas
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1 December 2004 – 30 March 2005
2005-03-30
2004-12-01
Kulturgeschictliches Museum (Osnabrück, Germany)
2004-12-05
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Loan-out
17 April 2018 – 12 August 2018
2018-08-12
17 April 2018 – 12 August 2018
2018-08-12
2018-04-17
Von der Heydt Museum (Wuppertal, Germany)
2018-04-17
Jankel Adler - A Revolutionary and the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde
Loan-out
No Man’s Land
support: 860 × 1108 mm
frame: 1132 × 1384 × 72 mm
Presented by C.R. Churchill 1953
<strong>Jankel Adler</strong> 1895-1949
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Inscribed 'Adler' b.r. and '1943' on back of frame<br/>
Oil on canvas, 33 7/8 x 43 5/8 (86 x 111)<br/>
Presented by C.R. Churchill 1953<br/>
<em>Prov:</em> Charles Collingwood, London (purchased from the artist through the Redfern Gallery, London, 1943, and later exchanged for another work); the artist; C.R. Churchill, Lower Chicksgrove, Wilts., 1946 or 1947<br/>
<em>Exh:</em> <em>Jankel Adler</em>, Redfern Gallery, London, June-July 1943 (2); <em>Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Jankel Adler 1895-1949</em>, Arts Council, London, November-December 1951 (not in catalogue)<br/>
<em>Repr:</em> Stanley William Hayter, <em>Jankel Adler</em> (London-Paris-Brussels 1948), pl.31; Paul Fierens, <em>Jankel Adler</em> (London-Paris-Brussels 1948), pl.31
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On a thorn bush, under a dark night sky, is a singing bird. The moon is on the left.
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Adler told the donor that this picture was painted as the result of an experience he had when one evening he walked late in the fields. It was summer and very warm and quiet. A solitary bird sang - and it seemed the only life present in the still, calm, warm evening (letter from C.R. Churchill, 27 November 1953).
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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, p.2, reproduced p.2


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Catalogue entry
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abstraction animals: birds astronomy bird - non-specific field figure from recognisable sources landscape moon night organic plants and flowers thorn times of the day