Oil paint on canvas
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Building in Berkeley Square
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1938
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painting oil paint canvas
Building in Berkeley Square
support: 806 × 648 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> 1938
<p><b>N04963</b> BUILDING IN BERKELEY SQUARE 1938
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Charles Cundall 1938’ b.r.
<br/>Canvas, 31 3/4×25 1/2 (81×65).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1938.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1938 (362).</p>
<p>The artist wrote (4 March 1956) that this was painted from a window in Bruton Street during the building of Berkeley Square House at the corner of Bruton Street and Berkeley Square. A daytime view of the same site from another angle was exhibited at the same year's R.A. (400) and is reproduced in the <i>Royal <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/academy" title="Glossary definition for 'Academy'"><span>Academy</span></a> Illustrated</i>, 1938, p.26.</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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2004-10-06T00:00:00
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architecture Berkeley Square builder building site car crane England heating and lighting industrial and crafts light, floodlight night objects places road society square times of the day tools and machinery townscapes / man-made features transport: land UK countries and regions UK London work and occupations