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Sleep
Presented by Lord Ivor Spencer Churchill 1927
actions: postures and motions
actions: processes and functions
adults
architecture
couch
domestic
eroticism
features
female
furnishings
interior - non-specific
interiors
nudes
objects
people
reclining
sensuality
sex and relationships
sleeping
society
window
woman
painting oil paint canvas
Sleep
support: 895 × 1321 mm
Presented by Lord Ivor Spencer Churchill 1927
<p><b>N04264</b> SLEEP <i>c.</i> 1898</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘P W Steer’ b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 35 1/4×52 (89·5×132).
<br/>Presented by Lord Ivor Spencer Churchill 1927.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Purchased by Lord Ivor Spencer Churchill from the Goupil Gallery 1924.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> N.E.A.C., April–May 1898 (84); Goupil Gallery, March–April 1924 (62); Tate Gallery, April–July 1929 (186); Birkenhead, 1951 (17).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> MacColl, 1945, pp.107, 198.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> Ironside, 1943, pl.33.</p>
<p>Possibly painted at The Avenue, Fulham Road studio, which the artist left some time in 1898 to move to Cheyne Walk. This work belongs to a series of ‘<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/rococo" title="Glossary definition for 'Rococo'"><span>rococo</span></a>’ nude subjects such as ‘The Toilet of Venus’ (<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/steer-the-toilet-of-venus-n04272" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04272</span></a>) and ‘The Mirror’ (1901, repr. Ironside, <i>op. cit.</i>, pl.34), all of which were painted from professional models.</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 actions: processes and functions adults architecture couch domestic eroticism features female furnishings interior - non-specific interiors nudes objects people reclining sensuality sex and relationships sleeping society window woman