Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
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Contemporary Art Society
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/henry-lamb-1456" aria-label="More by Henry Lamb" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Henry Lamb</a>
Phantasy
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1924
actions: postures and motions
adults
animals: mammals
crouching
horse
landscape
leisure and pastimes
male
man
mountain
nudes
people
recreational activities
riding
riding
society
standing
transport: land
painting oil paint canvas
1 May 2018 – 30 September 2019
2019-09-30
1 May 2018 – 30 September 2018
2018-09-30
2018-05-01
The Salisbury Museum (Salisbury, UK)
http://www.salisburymuseum.org.uk
1 May 2019 – 30 September 2019
2019-09-30
2019-05-01
Poole Museum (Poole, UK)
2018-05-01
Henry Lamb
Loan-out
Phantasy
support: 864 × 610 mm
frame: 1037 × 800 × 60 mm
Presented by the <a href="/search?gid=999999975" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Contemporary Art Society</a> 1924
<p><b>N03840</b> PHANTASY 1912
<br/> 
<br/>Inscr. ‘Henry Lamb 1912’ t.l.
<br/>Canvas, 34×24 (86·5×61).
<br/>Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1924.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Purchased by the C.A.S. by 1913.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> N.E.A.C., summer 1912 (152); C.A.S., <i>First Public Exhibition in London</i>, Goupil Gallery, April 1913 (25); <i>Twentieth Century Art</i>, Whitechapel Art Gallery, May–June 1914 (326); on loan to the Tate Gallery, 1920–4; C.A.S., <i>Paintings and Drawings</i>, Grosvenor House, June–July 1923 (10).
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>C.A.S. Report 1914–19</i>, 1920, pl.6; <i>Tate Gallery Illustrated Guide</i>, 1936, p.117.</p>
<p>Painted ‘when I was riding a good deal’ (letter from the artist, 22 November 1955), and perhaps inspired by Picasso's Pink Period. The shape of the horse's head has been altered.</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
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2004-07-20T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions adults animals: mammals crouching horse landscape leisure and pastimes male man mountain nudes people recreational activities riding riding society standing transport: land