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Landscape
Presented by Julian Lousada 1927
fir
landscape
mountain
paper unique pastel
Landscape
support: 184 × 184 mm
Presented by Julian Lousada 1927
<strong>Simon Bussy</strong> 1870-1954
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<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/bussy-landscape-n04246" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04246</span></a> <strong>Landscape</strong> <em>c</em>.1902-3
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Inscribed 'Simon Bussy' b.l.<br/>
Pastel on paper, paper very irregular, largest dimensions 9 5/8 x 8 (24.3 x 20.2)<br/>
Presented by Julian Lousada 1927<br/>
<em>Prov:</em> Julian Lousada, London
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The artist said this was doubtless a Swiss or Tyrolean <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscape</span></a> executed towards the beginning of the century and exhibited in London at that time. But as he made a large number in the same style, he could not place it exactly (letter of June 1952).
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It may have been among the pastels exhibited in his one-man shows at the Dutch Gallery in 1902 (8-10) or the Carfax Gallery in 1903 (10-12) with titles such as 'Firs on the Jura at Dawn'.
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<strong>Published in:</strong><br/>
Ronald Alley, <em>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</em>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.90, reproduced p.90


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