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Royal Academy Private Day
Purchased 1940
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paper unique ink watercolour
The Royal Academy: Private View Day
support: 330 × 391 mm
Purchased 1940
<p><b>N05138</b>	THE ROYAL ACADEMY: PRIVATE VIEW DAY 1939
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Feliks Topolski 39’ b.l.
<br/>Pen and wash, 13×15 3/8 (33×39).
<br/>Purchased from the artist (Knapping Fund) 1940.</p>
<p>A <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/pendant" title="Glossary definition for 'Pendant'"><span>pendant</span></a> and sequel to <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/topolski-the-royal-academy-varnishing-day-n05137" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05137</span></a>, representing the Private View Day at the <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>'s Summer Exhibition. The head of Hannen Swaffer, seen in profile and turned to the left, is just visible beyond the three central figures in the foreground.</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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2004-10-07T00:00:00
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adults art and craft art appreciation art gallery caricature clothing and personal items England group groups hat interiors leisure and pastimes man man, old objects people places public and municipal Royal Academy of Arts social comment society UK countries and regions UK London woman woman, old