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Feline
Presented by the executor of Mrs Herbert Gibson 1932
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animals: mammals
cat
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<p>John Skeaping and Alan Durst shared the enthusiasm for direct carving shown by Jacob Epstein’s Doves displayed on the plinth opposite. The carving of animals was particularly popular during this period because it was felt that they could be more easily abstracted than the human form. As shown by Skeaping’s Fish, carved from a large ironstone pebble, such works combine fine carving with sensitive handling of the material.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
sculpture siena marble
26 October 2001 – 2 March 2007
2007-03-02
26 October 2001 – 2 March 2007
2007-03-02
2001-10-26
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2001-10-26
Ambulatories
Collection based display
24 June 2015 – 28 August 2016
2016-08-28
24 June 2015 – 25 October 2015
2015-10-25
2015-06-24
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
27 November 2015 – 17 April 2016
2016-04-17
2015-11-27
Kröller-Müller Museum (Otterlo, The Netherlands)
22 May 2016 – 28 August 2016
2016-08-28
2016-05-22
Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck (Remagen, Germany)
2015-06-24
Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World
Exhibition
24 June 2015 – 28 August 2016
2016-08-28
27 November 2015 – 17 April 2016
2016-04-17
2015-11-27
Kröller-Müller Museum (Otterlo, The Netherlands)
22 May 2016 – 28 August 2016
2016-08-28
2016-05-22
Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck (Remagen, Germany)
2015-06-24
Barbara Hepworth
Loan-out
Feline
object: 190 × 267 × 210 mm, 13.1 kg
Presented by the executor of Mrs Herbert Gibson 1932
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<span class="text26">John Skeaping and Alan Durst shared the enthusiasm </span><span class="text0">for <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/direct-carving" title="Glossary definition for 'Direct carving'"><span>direct carving</span></a> shown by</span><span class="text23"> Jacob      Epstein’s </span><span class="text25">Doves</span><span class="text23"> </span><span class="text24">displayed on the </span><span class="text21">plinth opposite. The carving of animals </span><span class="text23">was </span><span class="text19">particularly popular during this </span><span class="text23">period </span><span class="text22">because </span><span class="text21">it was felt that they could be more easily <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/a/abstract-art" title="Glossary definition for 'Abstract art'"><span>abstracted</span></a> than      the human form. As shown by Skeaping’s </span><span class="text20">Fish</span><span class="text21">, carved from a large </span><span class="text24">ironstone      pebble, such works</span><span class="text0"> combine fine </span><span class="text21">carving with sensitive handling of the material. </span>
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<p><b>N04615</b> FELINE 1930
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<br/>Inscr. ‘19 ALD 30.’ b.l.
<br/>Siena marble, 7 1/2×10 1/2×8 1/4 (19×27×21).
<br/>Presented by the Executor of Mrs Herbert Gibson in accordance with her wishes 1932.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Purchased by Mrs H. W. S. Gibson at the Leicester Galleries 1930.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Leicester Galleries, October 1930 (15).</p>
<p>The artist wrote (4 August 1956): ‘It was the outcome of having a very favourite white cat in my studio, and watching her large relations in the zoo. It was an attempt to show one generalized aspect of the essential sameness of the whole tribe - in terms of Siena marble. I named it originally “Feline”, and I think perhaps that is the nearest one can get to my meaning with a simple word.’ It was previously catalogued as ‘Animal’.</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
2004-07-20T00:00:00
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