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Pear Tree in Blossom
Purchased 1939
architecture
blossom
countries and continents
farmland
France
house
landscape
mountain
pear
places
residential
painting oil paint wood
Pear Tree in Blossom
support: 324 × 406 mm
frame: 530 × 608 × 85 mm
Purchased 1939
<p><b>N05021</b> PEAR TREE IN BLOSSOM 1913
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Lees 13’ b.r.
<br/>Oil on panel, 12 3/4×16 (32·5×40·5).
<br/>Purchased from the Redfern Gallery (Knapping Fund) 1939.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Chenil Galleries, January 1914 (52), as ‘The Pear Tree’; <i>Twentieth Century Art</i>, Whitechapel Art Gallery, May–June 1914 (383); Redfern Gallery, April–May 1934 (16), as ‘The Pear Tree, Provence’; lent to the Tate Gallery 1934–8 by Rex de C. Nan Kivell; <i>Augustus John, J. D. Innes, Derwent Lees</i>, Redfern Gallery, February–March 1939 (40).</p>
<p>There is a rough sketch of hills on the back.</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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architecture blossom countries and continents farmland France house landscape mountain pear places residential