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Descent Cross
Presented by the Ivan Meštrovic Purchase Fund 1919
relief wood
23 November 2023 – 3 March 2024
2024-03-03
23 November 2023 – 3 March 2024
2024-03-03
2023-11-23
Galerija Klovicevi Dvori (Zagreb, Croatia)
2023-11-23
Ivan Meštrović
Loan-out
The Descent from the Cross
object: 1003 × 1622 mm
Presented by the Ivan Meštrovic Purchase Fund 1919
<div class="text1"><b>Ivan </b><b>Meštrović</b><span>
1883-1962 </span>
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<div class="text1"><span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/mestrovic-the-descent-from-the-cross-n03460" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N03460</span></a> </span><b>The Deposition from the Cross</b><span> 1917</span>
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<div class="text1"><span>Not inscribed </span>
<br/><span>Wood low-relief, 39 ½ x 63 7/8 x 2 ¼ (100.5 x 162.5 x 5.7) </span>
<br/><span>Presented by the Ivan </span><span>Meštrović Purchase Fund 1919 </span>
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<blockquote class="text1"><i>Prov</i><span>: Ivan </span><span>Meštrović</span><span>
Purchase Fund (purchased from the artist) </span>
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<blockquote class="text1"><i>Exh: Serbo-Croatian Artists. </i><i>Meštrović</i><i>-Ra</i><i>č</i><i>ki-Rosandi</i><i>ć</i><span>, Grafton Gallery, London, December 1917 (30) as 'The Descent from the Cross'; RSA, Edinburgh, April-August 1918 (4); 57th Exhibition, Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, September-December 1918 (8); </span><i>Artistes Yougoslaves</i><span>, Petit Palais, Paris, April-May 1919 (25, repr.) as 'Mise au Tombeau'; on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, December 1919-November 1920; </span><i>Jugoslav Sculpture and Painting</i><span>, Tate Gallery, April-May 1930 (61); </span><i>Jugoslav Paintings and Sculpture</i><span>, Manchester City Art Gallery, May-June 1931 (32); </span><i>Yugoslav Exhibition</i><span>, RA, London, January-February 1944 (59); RSA, Edinburgh, April-September 1962 (46) </span>
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<blockquote class="text1"><i>Lit: 	Connoisseur</i><span>, L, 1918, p.233, repr. p.239; Sir John Lavery, M. </span><span>Ć</span><span>ur</span><span>č</span><span>in and others, </span><i>Ivan </i><i>Meštrović</i><i>: A Monograph</i><span> (London 1919), No. 233, pp.51, 65, repr. pl.68 as 'Deposition from the Cross'; I. </span><span>Meštrović</span><span>
and Ernest H.R. Collings, </span><i>Meštrović</i><span>
(Zagreb 1933), p.12, repr. pl.85 as 'The Entombment'; Harry H. Hilberry and Norman L. Rice, </span><i>The Sculpture of Ivan </i><i>Meštrović</i><span>
(New York 1948), pp.16-17, repr. pl.89</span>
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<div class="text1"><span>This <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/relief" title="Glossary definition for 'Relief'"><span>relief</span></a> belongs to a series of wood carvings of religious themes made at Geneva and Cannes during a dark period of the First World War, in 1916-17. The artist wrote in February 1954 that it was executed at Geneva, but in the monograph of 1919 by Sir John Lavery and others it is said to have been made at Cannes. It has also been known as 'The Descent from the Cross' and 'The Entombment'.</span>
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<div class="text1"><span>It was bought from the artist in 1919 for £550 by the committee of the </span><span>Meštrović</span><span>
Purchase Fund organised by Ernest H.R. Collings. All the Fund's records, including a complete list of the subscribers, are now in the Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum.</span>
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<div class="text1"><b>Published in</b><span>: </span>
<br/><span>Ronald Alley, </span><i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists,</i><span>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.512, reproduced p.512</span>
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