Tempera on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/ian-fairweather-1077" aria-label="More by Ian Fairweather" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Ian Fairweather</a>
Bathing Scene Bali
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1935
actions: postures and motions
adults
bathing / swimming
child
children
countries and continents
crouching
female
group
groups
Indonesia, Bali
leisure and pastimes
nudes
people
places
pool
recreational activities
water: inland
woman
paper unique tempera
16 May 2006
16 May 2006 – 15 May 2009
2009-05-15
2006-05-16
Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane, Australia)
2006-05-16
Long loan to Queensland Art Gallery
Loan-out
1 March 2015 – 28 February 2018
2018-02-28
16 May 2006 – 15 May 2009
2009-05-15
2006-05-16
Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane, Australia)
2015-03-01
333.Brisbane.QAG
Loan-out
Bathing Scene, Bali
support: 889 × 1321 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> 1935
<strong>Ian Fairweather</strong> 1891-1974
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<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/fairweather-bathing-scene-bali-n04801" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04801</span></a> <strong>Bathing Scene, Bali</strong> 1933
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Not inscribed<br/>
Tempera on paper mounted on millboard, 35 x 52 (89 x 135), about 2.5cm of the painted surface turned over all round<br/>
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1935<br/>
<em>Prov:</em> CAS (purchased from the artist 1934)<br/>
<em>Exh:</em> <em>Spring Exhibition</em>, Cartwright Memorial Hall, Bradford, March-June 1935 (269) as 'Bathing Scene: Bali'<br/>
<em>Lit:</em> Nourma Abbott-Smith, <em>Ian Fairweather: Profile of a Painter</em> (Brisbane 1978), pp.51, 66<br/>
<em>Repr:</em> <em>CAS Report 1934-5</em> (London 1935), p.9
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Ian Fairweather left Shanghai in late 1932 or early 1933, and stopped off in Bali for six months on his way to Australia. This picture and a <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> 'Procession in Bali' (52 x 143cm), bought by the Leicester Museums and Art Gallery in 1936, seem to be his largest and most important early surviving works.
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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.213, reproduced p.213
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Catalogue entry
2004-09-10T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions adults bathing / swimming child children countries and continents crouching female group groups Indonesia, Bali leisure and pastimes nudes people places pool recreational activities water: inland woman