Oil paint on canvas
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/simon-levy-1943" aria-label="More by Simon Levy" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Simon Levy</a>
Musician
Presented by Lord Ivor Spencer Churchill 1939
actions: postures and motions
adults
book - non-specific
chair
curtain
domestic
fine arts and music
furnishings
instrument, violin
interior - non-specific
interiors
jug
objects
people
reading, writing, printed matter
sitting
table
vessels and containers
woman
painting oil paint canvas
The Musician
support: 1213 × 857 mm
frame: 1315 × 966 × 78 mm
Presented by Lord Ivor Spencer Churchill 1939
<p><b>Simon-Lévy</b><span>
1886-1973 </span>
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<p><span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/levy-the-musician-n05032" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05032</span></a> </span><b>La Musicienne</b><span> (The Musician) 1925 </span>
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<p><span>Inscribed 'Simon Levy' t.r., 'Simon-Levy' and 'Simon-Levy | Ne pas vernir | Not varnish' on back of canvas, 'Simon-Levy PARIS Ne pas vernir' on stretcher</span>
<br/><span>Oil on canvas, 47 3/4 x 33 3/4 (121 x 86)</span>
<br/><span>Presented by Lord Ivor Spencer Churchill 1939</span>
<br/><i>Prov:</i><span>
Lord Ivor Spencer Churchill, London (purchased from the artist through the Independent Gallery 1926)</span>
<br/><i>Exh:</i><span>
Salon des Tuileries, Paris, May-July 1925 (1364) as 'La Musicienne'; </span><i>Peintures par Simon Lévy</i><span>, Galerie Berthe Weill, Paris, November-December 1925 (no catalogue traced); </span><i>Paintings by Simon-Levy</i><span>, Independent Gallery, London, February 1926 (1) as 'The Musician'; </span><i>The CAS: Second Loan Exhibition of Foreign Paintings</i><span>, M. Knoedler, London, February 1928 (26); </span><i>Fifty Years of Portraits</i><span>, Leicester Galleries, London, May-June 1935 (125) as 'Portrait d' une violiniste'</span><br/><i>Repr:</i><span> </span><i>L'Art Vivant</i><span>, No.10, 15 May 1925, p.21; </span><i>L'Amour de l'Art</i><span>, VI, 1925, p.232 </span>
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<p><span>This picture has also been known as '<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/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>Portrait</span></a> of a Violinist', but was first exhibited under the title used here. The artist said in March 1952 that the sitter was a professional model, who posed for him on many occasions. </span>
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<p><b>Published in:</b>
<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, pp.686-7, reproduced p.686</span>
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2004-09-15T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions adults book - non-specific chair curtain domestic fine arts and music furnishings instrument, violin interior - non-specific interiors jug objects people reading, writing, printed matter sitting table vessels and containers woman