Oil paint on canvas
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Girl with a HandMirror
Purchased 1940
adults
clothing and personal items
curtain
domestic
furnishings
hand mirror
interior - non-specific
interiors
objects
people
woman
painting oil paint canvas
Girl with a Hand-Mirror
support: 918 × 716 mm
Purchased 1940
<p><b>N05083</b> GIRL WITH A HAND-MIRROR 1929</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘Arnold Mason 1929’ t.r.
<br/>Canvas, 36 1/4×28 1/4 (92×71·5).
<br/>Purchased from the artist (Knapping Fund) 1940.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1930 (28), as ‘The Hand Mirror’; exhibition of contemporary painting, Bourne-mouth, 1938 or 1939 (catalogue not traced).</p>
<p>According to the artist it was at an exhibition in Bournemouth in 1938 or 1939 that this picture was seen by Augustus John and recommended for purchase by the Tate Gallery (letter of August 1956).</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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2004-07-20T00:00:00
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adults clothing and personal items curtain domestic furnishings hand mirror interior - non-specific interiors objects people woman