Oil paint on canvas
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/philip-wilson-steer-1990" aria-label="More by Philip Wilson Steer" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Philip Wilson Steer</a>
Boulogne Sands
Presented by the Art Fund 1943
adults
beach
Boulogne-sur-Mer - non-specific
children
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
clothing and personal items
countries and continents
France
girl
hat, bonnet
leisure and pastimes
objects
people
places
playing
recreational activities
sandcastle
sea
seascapes and coasts
toys and models
woman
<p>In the early 1880s Steer studied in Paris, where he encountered the work of the French impressionists. After his return to England in 1884, he painted a series of luminous and brightly coloured coastal views which relate to Monet’s paintings of the same period. The loose brushwork and sparkling colours brilliantly capture the transience and exhilaration of childhood and summer vacations. His use of strongly contrasting colours draws on theories being promoted by the most avant-garde painters in France at this time.</p><p><em>Gallery label, November 2016</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
11 October 2002 – 5 January 2003
2003-01-05
11 October 2002 – 5 January 2003
2003-01-05
2002-10-11
Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville, USA)
2002-10-11
Whistler Sargent and Steer - Frist
Tate partnerships & programmes
14 May 2005 – 20 November 2005
2005-11-20
14 May 2005 – 4 September 2005
2005-09-04
2005-05-14
Lady Lever Art Gallery (Port Sunlight, UK)
17 September 2005 – 20 November 2005
2005-11-20
2005-09-17
Ferens Art Gallery (Hull, UK)
http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/museumcollections
2005-05-14
Beside the Seaside: the British Impressionists
Loan-out
23 June 2006 – 4 December 2006
2006-12-04
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2006-06-23
Philip Wilson Steer The British Impressionist
Collection based display
7 August 2014 – 24 July 2022
2022-07-24
7 August 2014
2014-08-07
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2014-08-07
Gallery 9
Collection based display
Boulogne Sands
support: 610 × 765 mm
frame: 910 × 1058 × 74 mm
Presented by the <a href="/search?gid=999999968" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Art Fund</a> 1943
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<p>In the early 1880s Steer studied in Paris, where he encountered the work of the French impressionists. After his return to England in 1884, he painted a series of luminous and brightly coloured coastal views which relate to Monet’s paintings of the same period. The loose brushwork and sparkling colours brilliantly capture the transience and exhilaration of childhood and summer vacations. His use of strongly contrasting colours draws on theories being promoted by the most avant-garde painters in France at this time.</p>
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2016-11-15T00:00:00
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<p><b>N05439</b> BOULOGNE SANDS 1888–91</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘P. W. Steer 92.’ b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 24×30 1/8 (61×76·5).
<br/>Presented by the National Art-Collections Fund 1943.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Purchased from the N.E.A.C. exhibition by Professor Fred Brown; Miss Ellen Brown by 1941, from whom it was acquired by the N.A.C.F.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> N.E.A.C., November 1892 (8); Goupil Gallery, February 1894 (32); Barbizon House, May 1927 (30); Tate Gallery, April–July 1929 (15).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> MacColl, 1945, pp.45–6, 192; John Rothenstein, <i>Modern English Painters: Sickert to Smith</i>, 1952, pp.65–6.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Artwork</i>, No.17, 1929, p.4; Ironside, 1943, pl.15; MacColl, 1945, pl.18a.</p>
<p>A sketchbook in the V. &amp; A. (E. 281) has a number of studies of children playing on the beach relating to both <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/steer-boulogne-sands-n05439" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05439</span></a> and an oil in the collection of Major Nicholas Daniel (repr. Ironside, 1943, pl.4) which once had the same title. On p. 76 of the sketchbook the group of figures in <span>N05439</span> is adapted to fit a lunette shape. The sketchbook is inscribed ‘Boulogne [1889?-deleted] 1888’ and internal evidence supports this dating. The Tate <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> may have been begun in 1888 and continued on Steer's second visit to Boulogne in 1891. (Information from Bruce Laughton.)</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, II
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-07T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
adults beach Boulogne-sur-Mer - non-specific children cities, towns, villages (non-UK) clothing and personal items countries and continents France girl hat, bonnet leisure and pastimes objects people places playing recreational activities sandcastle sea seascapes and coasts toys and models woman