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A Fair at Koprivnica
Presented by Miss I.M. Garrido 1931
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painting oil paint tempera canvas
A Fair at Koprivnica
support: 730 × 1041 mm
frame: 900 × 1220 × 65 mm
Presented by Miss I.M. Garrido 1931
<strong>Krsto Hegedusic</strong> 1901-1975
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Inscribed 'K. Hegedusic 1930.' b.l., 'K. HEGEDUSIC Zagreb | "Sajam u Koprivnici"' on back of canvas and 'K. Hegedusic' on stretcher<br/>
Oil and tempera on canvas, 28 3/4 x 41 (72 x 104)<br/>
Presented by Miss I.M. Garrido 1931<br/>
<em>Prov:</em> Miss I.M. Garrido, Swansea (purchased from the artist 1931)<br/>
<em>Exh:</em> <em>Jugoslav Sculpture and Painting</em>, Tate Gallery, April-May 1930 (86); <em>Yugoslav Pictures and Sculpture</em>, Leeds City Art Gallery, June-July 1930 (72); Bradford City Art Gallery, August-September 1930 (64); Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, October-November 1930; <em>Jugoslav Paintings and Sculpture</em>, Belfast City Art Gallery, December 1930-February 1931 (35); Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, March-April 1931 (35); Manchester City Art Gallery, May-June 1931 (84); <em>Yugoslav Sculpture and Paintings</em>, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, July-August 1931 (24)<br/>
<em>Repr:</em> Ota Bihalji-Merin, <em>The Art of Krsto Hegedusic</em> (Zagreb 1959), p.4; Miroslav Krleza, Vladimir Malekovic and Darko Schneider, <em>Krsto Hegedusic</em> (Zagreb 1974), p. 53
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By its theme and pictorial conception this picture belongs to the period of Hegedusic's activity as a member of the group 'The Earth', organised by himself in 1929, and banned by the police in 1935. This <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> evokes the memory of his own childhood. (Letter from the artist, 6 November 1953).
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<strong>Published in:</strong><br/>
Ronald Alley, <em>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</em>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.358, reproduced p.358
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adults animals: mammals architecture cart cow crowd groups horse man market people pig public and municipal society townscapes / man-made features transport: land village woman