Ink and watercolour on paper
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PickaBack
Purchased 1927
actions: postures and motions
actions: processes and functions
adults
carrying / holding
child
children
figure
nudes
people
walking
woman
paper unique ink watercolour
The Pick-a-Back
support: 495 × 279 mm
Purchased 1927
<p><b>N04242</b> THE PICK-A-BACK <i>c.</i> 1925
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<br/>Inscr. ‘R. J. Burn’ b.r.
<br/>Pen and wash, 19 1/2×11 (49×28).
<br/>Purchased from the artist through the N.E.A.C. (Duveen Drawings Fund) 1927.
<br/><i>Exh:</i>
N.E.A.C., spring 1927 (247).
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Studio</i>, XCV, 1928, p.83.</p>
<p>A squared-up study made about 1925 for ‘The Flight into Egypt’, formerly in the Collection of Sir Augustus Daniel (letter from the artist, 25 October 1953).</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, I</p>
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2004-07-20T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions actions: processes and functions adults carrying / holding child children figure nudes people walking woman