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Two Ballet Dancers with Dresser
Presented by Francis Howard 1940
actions: postures and motions
adults
arms folded
arts and entertainment
ballet
clothing and personal items
dancer
dress
dresser
group
groups
legs crossed
leisure and pastimes
music and entertainment
natural phenomena
objects
people
shadow
sitting
tutu
woman
work and occupations
paper unique graphite watercolour chalk
Two Ballet Dancers with Dresser
support: 483 × 521 mm
Presented by Francis Howard 1940
<p><b>N05217</b> TWO BALLET DANCERS WITH DRESSER <i>c.</i> 1913</p>
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<p>Not inscribed.
<br/>Watercolour, 19×20 1/2 (48×52).
<br/>Presented by Francis Howard 1940.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> The Hon. Evan Charteris.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> (?) International Society, autumn 1914 (135), as ‘A Dancing Girl and her Dresser’; R.A., <i>Late Members</i>, 1928 (414), as ‘Three Ballet Girls’.
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Johnson, 1919, II, p.3, as, incorrectly, exhibited International Society, spring 1915, repr. pl.101.</p>
<p>Three <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/watercolour" title="Glossary definition for 'Watercolour'"><span>watercolours</span></a> of similar subjects were exhibited with the International Society, autumn 1914: 131, ‘Dancing Girl’; 132, ‘Dancing Girl Reclining’; and 135, ‘Dancing Girl and her Dresser’. The second of these is probably the work repr. Johnson, 1919, II, pl.15, and Gleadowe, 1924, pl.29 (as executed in 1913): <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/mcevoy-two-ballet-dancers-with-dresser-n05217" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05217</span></a> may have been the third. Another <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>drawing</span></a>, of ‘Two Ballet Girls’, is listed in Johnson, 1919, II, p.5. 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/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> of ‘A Ballet Girl Reclining’, from the Claude Johnson Collection, was exhibited at the Leicester Galleries, December 1953 (63; as painted in 1913).</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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actions: postures and motions adults arms folded arts and entertainment ballet clothing and personal items dancer dress dresser group groups legs crossed leisure and pastimes music and entertainment natural phenomena objects people shadow sitting tutu woman work and occupations