Ink, pastel, gouache and watercolour on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/rodney-j-burn-836" aria-label="More by Rodney J. Burn" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Rodney J. Burn</a>
a Girl
Purchased 1923
paper unique ink pastel gouache watercolour
Study of a Girl
support: 432 × 330 mm
Purchased 1923
<p><b>N03721</b>	STUDY OF A GIRL <i>c.</i> 1922
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<br/>Inscr. ‘R. J. Burn’ b.r.
<br/>Pen, pastel, water-and body-colour, irregular, 16 3/4/17×13 (42·5/43×33).
<br/>Purchased from the artist through the N.E.A.C. (Duveen Drawings Fund) 1923.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> N.E.A.C., January 1923 (186).
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Tate Gallery Illustrations</i>, 1928, pl.192.</p>
<p>The <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a>, squared for enlargement, is a sketch for a mural, ‘A London Park’, intended for the L.C.C. County Hall but never put in place; it still belongs to the artist (letter from the artist, 10 February 1960).</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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