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Details
- Date
- 1949
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- tempera on canvas
- Dimensions
- 91.7 x 152.3 cm; 116.3 x 177.3 x 9.3 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.l., black paint "Evans 49".
- Credit
- Purchased 1952
- Location
- South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries
- Accession number
- 8695
- Copyright
- © Estate of Merlyn Evans
- Artist information
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Merlyn Evans
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 7 exhibitions
Artists of fame and promise: part two, 1949, The Leicester Galleries, London, 19 Aug 1949–17 Sep 1949
Modern British Painting 1900-1949, The Heffer Gallery, Cambridge, Oct 1949–Nov 1949
Purchases and acquisitions for 1952, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 26 Mar 1953–24 May 1953
Merlyn Evans Retrospective 1927-1956, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 04 Oct 1956–04 Nov 1956
Paintings by European masters: Adelaide Festival of Arts 1960, National Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 12 Mar 1960–26 Mar 1960
Modern Britain 1900-1960, NGV: International, Melbourne, 15 Nov 2007–24 Feb 2008
20th-Century galleries, ground level (rehang), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Aug 2022–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 11 publications
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Ernest Brown and Phillips Ltd, London, Catalogue of the seventeenth annual exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculpture by artists of fame and of promise: part two, London, 1949. cat.no. 120
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Renée Free, Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue of British paintings, Sydney, 1987, 55 (illus.).
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Ted Gott, Laurie Benson and Sophie Matthiesson, Modern Britain 1900-1960, Melbourne, 2007, 252 (colour illus.).
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Anne Kirker and Peter Tomory, British painting 1800–1990 in Australian and New Zealand public collections, Sydney, 1997, 78. cat.no. 613
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European Masters', The Adelaide Festival of Arts 1960: Souvenir catalogue of special exhibitions at the National Gallery of South Australia, 'Paintings, Adelaide, 1960. cat.no. 3
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Eric Newton, Sunday Times, 'An Important Picture', London, 28 Aug 1949.
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Whitechapel Art Gallery, Merlyn Evans, London, 1956, (illus.). Plate no. XIII
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Editor Unknown (Editor), South Wales Post, Unknown, 27 Oct 1955.
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Editor Unknown (Editor), Daily Mail, London, 07 Sep 1949, (illus.).
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Editor Unknown (Editor), Rand Daily Mail, Johannesburg, 31 Aug 1949.
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Editor Unknown (Editor), Daily Graphic, Unknown, 30 Aug 1949.
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Provenance
The Leicester Galleries, London/England, Purchased by the AGNSW 1952