Oil paint on canvas
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Gypsy
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1939
actions: postures and motions
adults
bed
clothing and personal items
domestic
ethnicity
furnishings
gypsy
individuals: male
interior - non-specific
interiors
man
named individuals
objects
people
portraits
scarf
sitting
Smith
painting oil paint canvas
4 October 2008 – 11 January 2009
2009-01-11
4 October 2008 – 11 January 2009
2009-01-11
2008-10-04
Tate St Ives (St Ives, UK)
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2008-10-04
Heimo Zobernig and the Tate Collection
Exhibition
28 June 2011 – 9 July 2011
2011-07-09
28 June 2011 – 9 July 2011
2011-07-09
2011-06-28
Mall Galleries (London, UK)
2011-06-28
Retrospective of Founders
Loan-out
11 July 2013 – 10 May 2014
2014-05-10
11 July 2013 – 20 October 2013
2013-10-20
2013-07-11
National Portrait Gallery (London, UK)
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2 November 2013 – 16 February 2014
2014-02-16
2013-11-02
Laing Art Gallery (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
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1 March 2014 – 10 May 2014
2014-05-10
2014-03-01
The Box (Plymouth, UK)
2013-07-11
Laura Knight Portraits
Loan-out
20 March 2021 – 22 August 2021
2021-08-22
20 March 2021 – 22 August 2021
2021-08-22
2021-03-20
Laing Art Gallery (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/
2021-03-20
Challenging Convention
Loan-out
26 October 2024 – 5 January 2025
2025-01-05
26 October 2024 – 5 January 2025
2025-01-05
2024-10-26
Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum (Worcester, UK)
2024-10-26
Atchin Tan- Travelling Through Art
Loan-out
The Gypsy
support: 610 × 406 mm
frame: 810 × 610 × 85 mm
Presented by the Trustees of the <a href="/search?gid=999999977" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Chantrey Bequest</a> 1939
<p><b>N05330</b> THE GIPSY <i>c.</i> 1938–9
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<br/>Not inscribed.
<br/>Canvas, 24×16 (61×40).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1939.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Leicester Galleries, April 1939 (17); R.A., 1940 (566).</p>
<p>The artist wrote (15 November 1957): ‘He, a gentleman called Mr Smith, one wet day, at Iver, Bucks, in the camp there near the railway, posed for me in a little lean-to tent - just a corner in shelter, crowded by a big double bed where an old gipsy and his wife slept. I painted it in 3 or 4 hours. ... I haven't anything more to say about that Mr Smith except that he figures in several other pictures I painted at Iver - one in particular, his whole family which is somewhere in Scotland - wife, three children and his mother, a beautiful old Romany, queen of the camp.’ This was the picture ‘Gipsy Family’ exhibited at the R.A., 1939 (197); repr. <i>Royal <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/a/academy" title="Glossary definition for 'Academy'"><span>Academy</span></a> Illustrated</i>, 1939, p.58.</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
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-07T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions adults bed clothing and personal items domestic ethnicity furnishings gypsy individuals: male interior - non-specific interiors man named individuals objects people portraits scarf sitting Smith