Oil paint on board
Tate Collection
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/edward-le-bas-1479" aria-label="More by Edward Le Bas" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Edward Le Bas</a>
Café Scene
Purchased 1940
actions: postures and motions
adults
ashtray
café
chair
cup / mug
domestic
drinking
eating
eating and drinking
England
furnishings
group
groups
head in hand / hands
interiors
jug
kitchen
leisure and pastimes
London - non-specific
man
mirror
objects
people
places
places of entertainment
salt pot
sitting
table
tea pot
UK countries and regions
UK London
vessels and containers
woman
painting oil paint board
24 June 2024
24 June 2024
2024-06-24
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2024-06-24
Archive Gallery: Artists International Association
Collection based display
Café Scene
support: 567 × 816 × 24 mm
frame: 765 × 1020 × 83 mm
Purchased 1940
<p><b>N05134</b> CAFé SCENE 1939
<br/> 
<br/>Inscr. ‘E le Bas’ b.l.
<br/>Oil on hardboard, 21 1/2×31 1/2 (54·5×80).
<br/>Purchased from the artist (Knapping Fund) 1940.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> National Society, February–March 1940 (538), as ‘Café’.</p>
<p>Painted in the artist's studio in 1939 from <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> made in London tea shops, probably Lyons (letter from the artist, 27 December 1955). On the reverse there is a rough sketch in blue paint of a parrot in front of a dressing-table on which stands a mirror and a pot of flowers.</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
<br/></p>

Catalogue entry
2004-10-07T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: postures and motions adults ashtray café chair cup / mug domestic drinking eating eating and drinking England furnishings group groups head in hand / hands interiors jug kitchen leisure and pastimes London - non-specific man mirror objects people places places of entertainment salt pot sitting table tea pot UK countries and regions UK London vessels and containers woman