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Outskirts Montreuil
Bequeathed by George E. Healing 1953
architecture
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
France
landscape
Montreuil
places
sunshine
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
weather
wooded
painting oil paint canvas
11 October 2002 – 5 January 2003
2003-01-05
11 October 2002 – 5 January 2003
2003-01-05
2002-10-11
Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville, USA)
2002-10-11
Whistler Sargent and Steer - Frist
Tate partnerships & programmes
The Outskirts of Montreuil
support: 965 × 1219 mm
frame: 1550 × 1288 × 70 mm
Bequeathed by George E. Healing 1953
<p><b>N06184</b> THE OUTSKIRTS OF A TOWN (MONTREUIL) 1907</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘P. W Steer 1907’ b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 38×48 (97×122).
<br/>Bequeathed by George E. Healing 1953.
<br/><i>Coll:</i>
Purchased from the Goupil Gallery by George Healing 1909.
<br/><i>Exh:</i>
N.E.A.C., spring 1908 (99), as ‘The outskirts of a town’; <i>Autumn Exhibition</i>, Liverpool, 1908 (987); Goupil Gallery, April–May 1909 (25); <i>Coronation Exhibition</i>, Shepherd's Bush, 1911 (N.E.A.C. Section, 849); Tate Gallery, April–July 1929 (36); <i>British Painting since Whistler</i>, National Gallery, 1940 (91).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> MacColl, 1945, pp.85, 209.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Studio</i>, XLVI, 1909, p.260; Ironside, 1943, pl.50.</p>
<p>Contemporary with <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-church-at-montreuil-n06141" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N06141</span></a>, this is a view of the town of Montreuil (Pas de Calais) near Étaples. A smaller oil sketch for this picture belongs to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (repr. Ironside, <i>op. cit.</i>, pl.57).</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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2004-07-22T00:00:00
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architecture cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents France landscape Montreuil places sunshine townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features weather wooded