Near La Garde Freinet (1935)

Nadia Benois

oil on canvas

Tate, London, Liverpool and St Ives

Classification:

Painting

Materials:

Oil, Canvas

Physical Object Description:

Inscribed: ‘N Benois 1935’ bottom right. Image depicting a hilly landscape with dark trees and wild clouds on the sky; a farmer prepares the soil with horse.

Dimensions:

63.5 x 76.2 cm

Accession Number:

N04855

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1937

Scheme:

Historic Purchase by Purchaser (1914-2008)

Ownership history:

Purchased from the artist through Arthur Tooth & Sons, London by J. B. Manson (1879-1945) for the Contemporary Art Society, March 1936; presented to the Tate Gallery, 1937

Relationship:

James Bolivar 'J. B.' Manson Arthur Tooth & Sons, London Tate, London, Liverpool and St Ives

Subject:

Landscape, Agriculture, Work

Nadia (Nadezhda Leontievna) Benois was the Russian-born mother of the actor Peter Ustinov (1921-2004) and her father was once owner of Leonardo's Benois Madonna until 1914 (now in Hermitage, St Petersburg). She drew the scene near Saint-Maxime-sur-Mer, Var, South of France in 1934 and painted it back in London in 1935. It was purchased by J. B. Manson for the Contemporary Art Society ahead of her show Arthur Tooth & Sons, London in October-November, 1936 when it was reproduced in The Studio (CXII).

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