Oil paint on wood
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Nude
Purchased with assistance from the Knapping Fund 1940
actions: postures and motions
actions: processes and functions
adults
cloth
female
individuals: female
miscellaneous
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Nicholson, Edith
nudes
objects
people
portraits
reclining
sleeping
woman
<p>Nicholson painted very few nudes, perhaps three others only. He had been to art schools which were not especially committed to life studies, unlike the Slade School, and his pictures do not often include large scale figures. In addition his subjects were very personal, in that his creativity was not in inventing new subjects but in choosing them from real things around him. This study of the nude was not exhibited in his lifetime.</p><p><em>Gallery label, October 1997</em></p>
painting oil paint wood
1 August 2008 – 15 November 2008
2008-11-15
1 August 2008 – 15 November 2008
2008-11-15
2008-08-01
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (Middlesbrough, UK)
http://www.visitmima.com/
2008-08-01
Nudes
Loan-out
19 May 2012 – 13 January 2013
2013-01-13
19 May 2012 – 23 September 2012
2012-09-23
2012-05-19
Tate St Ives (St Ives, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/stives/
6 October 2012 – 13 January 2013
2013-01-13
2012-10-06
Turner Contemporary (Margate, UK)
2012-05-19
Alex Katz Collection Display
Collection based display
1 October 2012 – 31 January 2013
2013-01-31
14 January 2013 – 20 January 2013
2013-01-20
2013-01-14
Turner Contemporary (Margate, UK)
2012-10-01
Alex Katz: Give me tomorrow
Loan-out
Nude
support: 406 × 584 mm
frame: 570 × 753 × 88 mm
Purchased with assistance from the Knapping Fund 1940
<p>Nicholson painted very few nudes, perhaps three  others only. He had been to art schools which were  not especially committed to life studies, unlike  the Slade School, and his pictures do not often  include large scale figures. In addition his  subjects were very personal, in that his  creativity was not in inventing new subjects but  in choosing them from real things around him. This  study of the nude was not exhibited in his  lifetime.</p>
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1997-10-17T00:00:00
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<p><b>N05084</b> NUDE <i>c.</i> 1921</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘Nicholson’ b.l. and ‘N.’ t.r. and, on back, ‘Nude. WN’.
<br/>Oil on panel, 16×23 (41×58·5).
<br/>Purchased from the artist through the Matthiesen Gallery (Knapping Fund) 1940.
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Browse, 1956, p.81.</p>
<p>One of the artist's very few nudes; the model was the artist's second wife Edith, whom he married in 1919 and from whom he separated in the early 1930s (letters from Miss Lillian Browse, 17 July 1958, and Miss Marguerite Steen, 22 July 1958).</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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Catalogue entry
2004-07-20T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions actions: processes and functions adults cloth female individuals: female miscellaneous named individuals Nicholson, Edith nudes objects people portraits reclining sleeping woman