Graphite, ink and watercolour on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sir-max-beerbohm-722" aria-label="More by Sir Max Beerbohm" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Sir Max Beerbohm</a>
New English Art Club
Purchased 1952
actions: expressive
actions: postures and motions
adults
artist, painter
artist, printmaker
arts and entertainment
bending forward
caricature
clothing and personal items
De Glehn, Wilfred Gabriel
domestic
furnishings
German
groups
Harrison, L.A.
interior - non-specific
interiors
John, Augustus
knight
legs crossed
leisure and pastimes
MacColl, Dugald Sutherland
man
named groups
named individuals
nationality
New English Art Club
objects
Orpen, William, Sir
people
pipe
pointing
portraits
recreational activities
Rothenstein, William
royalty and social rank
Russell, Walter
Rutherston, Albert
Sargent, John Singer
Sickert, Walter Richard
sitting
smoking
social comment
society
standing
Steer, Philip Wilson
table
Tonks, Henry
work and occupations
paper unique graphite ink watercolour
31 January 2015 – 19 April 2015
2015-04-19
31 January 2015 – 19 April 2015
2015-04-19
2015-01-31
Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery (Norwich, UK)
http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk
2015-01-31
Homage to Manet
Loan-out
The New English Art Club
support: 343 × 419 mm
Purchased 1952
<p><b>N06075</b> THE NEW ENGLISH ART CLUB 1907
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<br/>Inscr. ‘N.E.A.C. Max 1907’ t.l.	 
<br/>Pencil, pen and watercolour, 13 1/2×16 1/2 (34×42).	 
<br/>Purchased from the Leicester Galleries (Knapping Fund) 1952.	 
<br/><i>Coll:</i> T. Geoffrey Blackwell, purchased at the Leicester Galleries 1911; sold Christie's, 6 July 1951 (3), bought Leicester Galleries.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Leicester Galleries, May 1911 (59); Leicester Galleries, May 1952 (125).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Lynch, 1921, pp.132–3 (on the 1906 version - see below); <i>Manchester Guardian</i>, 1 May 1952.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> Exh. cat., <i>Memorial Exhibition</i>, Leicester Galleries, June 1957 (wrongly as No.150, the version of 1906 - see below); Sir Joseph Duveen, <i>Thirty Years of British Art</i>, 1930, p.4.</p>
<p>The date has been read as 1909 but the last figure seems to be a seven. The members of 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/n/new-english-art-club" title="Glossary definition for 'New English Art Club'"><span>New English Art Club</span></a> shown are, from left to right, Sickert, W. G. de Glehn, Orpen (below), Augustus John, D. S. MacColl, Steer, Tonks, William Rothenstein (on table), Sargent, Albert Rutherston (under table), L. A. Harrison and Walter Russell. 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> is a revised version of the one of 1906 in the collection of Sir John Rothenstein (repr. Max Beerbohm, <i>A Book of <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/caricature" title="Glossary definition for 'Caricature'"><span>Caricatures</span></a></i>, 1907, pl.14), in which both MacColl and Tonks stand to the left of Steer, following the same curve, instead of framing him, and Roger Fry and Conder appear instead of Sargent and de Glehn respectively.</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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Catalogue entry
2004-10-08T00:00:00
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actions: expressive actions: postures and motions adults artist, painter artist, printmaker arts and entertainment bending forward caricature clothing and personal items De Glehn, Wilfred Gabriel domestic furnishings German groups Harrison, L.A. interior - non-specific interiors John, Augustus knight legs crossed leisure and pastimes MacColl, Dugald Sutherland man named groups named individuals nationality New English Art Club objects Orpen, William, Sir people pipe pointing portraits recreational activities Rothenstein, William royalty and social rank Russell, Walter Rutherston, Albert Sargent, John Singer Sickert, Walter Richard sitting smoking social comment society standing Steer, Philip Wilson table Tonks, Henry work and occupations