Gouache on paper
Tate Collection
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Broken Tractor
Purchased 1943
architecture
building
Corfe Castle - non-specific
Dorset
England
England, South West
England, Southern
features
places
ruins
society
stair / step
tractor
transport: land
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
paper unique gouache
13 September 2025 – 10 January 2026
2026-01-10
13 September 2025 – 10 January 2026
2026-01-10
2025-09-13
St Barbe Museum (Lymington, UK)
http://www.stbarbe-museum.org.uk/
2025-09-13
The Life of the Fields
Loan-out
Broken Tractor
support: 381 × 571 mm
Purchased 1943
<p><b>N05406</b> BROKEN TRACTOR 1942
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<br/>Inscr. on mount ‘Broken Tractor 1942 No.6’ b.l.
<br/>Gouache, 15×22 1/2 (38×57).
<br/>Purchased from the Lefevre Gallery (Knapping Fund) 1943.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Lefevre Gallery, March–April 1943 (15).
<br/><i>Repr:</i> Exh. cat., <i>Tate Gallery Continental Exhibition</i>, Paris, 1946, No.29; Sir John Rothenstein, <i>British Art since 1900</i>, 1962, pl.11.</p>
<p>In 1942 the artist was living at Corfe Castle where this was probably painted.</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
2004-07-21T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
architecture building Corfe Castle - non-specific Dorset England England, Southern England, South West features places ruins society stair / step tractor transport: land UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions