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Blue Cineraria
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1940
agriculture, gardening & fishing
cineraria
furnishings
objects
plant pot
plants and flowers
table
painting oil paint canvas
Blue Cineraria
support: 762 × 686 mm
frame: 966 × 892 × 93 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> 1940
<p><b>N05346</b> BLUE CINERARIA <i>c.</i> 1928
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<br/>Inscr. ‘John’ b.r.
<br/>Canvas, 30×27 (76×69).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1940.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> (?) Tooth, April–May 1929 (11, 16 or 24, as ‘Cinerarias’ I, II and III); R.A., 1940 (52); Arts Council, 1948–9 (56, repr. pl.12); Sheffield, August–October 1956 (36).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> T. W. Earp, ‘The Recent Work of Augustus John’ in <i>Studio</i>, XCVII, 1929, pp.235–6.</p>
<p>This is an example of the many flower pictures John painted in the mid 1920s. This picture may have been painted at Martigues.</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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2004-07-21T00:00:00
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agriculture, gardening & fishing cineraria furnishings objects plant pot plants and flowers table