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Peaches
Purchased 1941
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Peaches
support: 603 × 730 mm
Purchased 1941
<p><b>N05266</b> PEACHES 1937</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘MS’ b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 23 3/4×28 3/4 (60×73).
<br/>Purchased from Arthur Tooth &amp; Sons (Knapping Fund) 1941.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Tate Gallery, September–October 1953 (60, repr. in colour pl.16), and Arts Council tour, November 1953–February 1954 (36).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Michael Rothenstein, <i>Looking at Paintings</i>, 1947, p.40, repr.p.41 (in colour); Rothenstein, 1952, p.243.
<br/><i>Repr:</i>
<i>Eidos</i>, 2, September–October 1950, p.21, pl.2; Rothenstein, 1962, pl.14 (in colour).</p>
<p>In a letter to Michael Rothenstein (<i>loc. cit.</i>) the artist wrote that <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/smith-peaches-n05266" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05266</span></a> ‘was painted premier coup on white <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/canvas" title="Glossary definition for 'Canvas'"><span>canvas</span></a>, probably in about two hours. No previous studies at a time when things were going well. I was used to the studio I was in.... It was painted in accordance with certain rather indefinable rules that at the time I was truthfully obeying but I do not think it has anything in common with “Bravura” although ... it was painted quickly.’</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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bowl colour curtain emotions, concepts and ideas food and drink formal qualities fruit, peach furnishings objects vessels and containers