Ink and watercolour on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/giacomo-manzu-1572" aria-label="More by Giacomo Manzu" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Giacomo Manzu</a>
Cardinal
Purchased 1950
abstraction
cardinal
irregular forms
non-representational
religious
work and occupations
paper unique ink watercolour
Cardinal
support: 451 × 340 mm
Purchased 1950
<p><b>Giacomo Manzù</b><span> born 1908 [- 1991] </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/manzu-cardinal-n05967" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05967</span></a> </span><b>Cardinal</b><span>
1937 </span>
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<p><span>Inscribed 'Manzù' b.r.</span>
<br/><span>Pen, ink and wash on Japanese paper, 17 ¾ x 13 3/8 (45 x 34)</span>
<br/><span>Purchased from the artist through the Galleria del Milione, Milan (Cleve Fund) 1950</span>
<br/><i>Exh:</i><span>
</span><i>Anthology of Contemporary Italian Drawing</i><span>, Cometa Art Gallery, New York, February-March 1938 (works not listed) </span>
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<p><span>The artist told the compiler on 6 May 1953 that this <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> began as the Pope with an angel bringing the keys of Paradise, then turned into a cardinal. It is not connected with any <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/sculpture" title="Glossary definition for 'Sculpture'"><span>sculpture</span></a>. He dated a <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/photograph" title="Glossary definition for 'Photograph'"><span>photograph</span></a> of it 1938, but it has like </span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="/art/artworks/N05968" onclick="popTateObjects(event, -1, 'N05968');" title="View details of this artwork"><span>N05968</span></a><span>
a Rome customs stamp on the back with the date 30 October 1937. </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, p.481, reproduced p.481</span>
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Catalogue entry
2004-09-15T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
abstraction cardinal irregular forms non-representational religious work and occupations