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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/claude-rogers-1861" aria-label="More by Claude Rogers" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Claude Rogers</a>
Blow Lamp
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1954
blow lamp
chest of drawers
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painting oil paint canvas
The Blow Lamp
support: 622 × 749 mm
frame: 858 × 981 × 98 mm
Presented by the Trustees of the <a href="/search?gid=999999977" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Chantrey Bequest</a> 1954
<p><b>N06227</b> THE BLOW LAMP 1953–4</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘C Rogers 1954’ t.r.
<br/>Canvas, 24 1/2×29 1/2 (63×75).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the Leicester Galleries 1954.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Leicester Galleries, May–June 1954 (21); R.A., 1955 (78).
<br/><i>Repr:</i> Sir John Rothenstein, <i>British Art since 1900</i>, 1962, pl.100.</p>
<p>Executed in London in twenty or thirty longish sessions between October 1953 and January 1954, and painted direct from nature, 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/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a> being based on 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/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a> made in 1948 from more or less the same objects (letter from the artist, 5 May 1955).</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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2004-10-08T00:00:00
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blow lamp chest of drawers furnishings jug miscellaneous objects tap tools and machinery vessels and containers wire