Page 45 - Studio International - October 1972
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Recent acquisitions at the Tate (Top left)
Colin Self
Corvette Engine + Model 1965
Drawing, 22 x 15¼ in.
(Top centre)
Jan Schoonhoven
A group of modern acquisitions has just been painting by Duncan Grant, Venus and Adonis. Relief No R 69-26 1969
placed on exhibition at the Tate Gallery. The British Surrealist movement is Relief, 48¾ x 33 x ¾ in.
Among the foreign works are a painting of 1936 represented by works by Cecil Collins,
(Top right)
by Georges Vantongerloo, Gorky's Waterfall, Edward Burra, Conroy Maddox, John Banting Ivan Puni
and a relief in white by Jan Schoonhoven. There and Gordon Onslow-Ford. A group of British Suprematist Construction c 1916
Mixed media, 14¼ x 9½ in.
is also a Suprematist construction made in abstract paintings of the period 1949-59
Russia about 1916 by Ivan Puni (later known as consists of works by Alan Davie, Adrian Heath, (Bottom left)
Jean Pougny) and a collage study by Christo for William Turnbull, Patrick Heron, Robyn Denny Edward Burra
Keep your Head 1930
a curtain to be erected across a valley in and Terry Frost. Purchases of works by younger
Collage and pencil 23+x 21+ in.
Colorado. artists include paintings by Tom Phillips and
Most of the new works are by twentieth- Patrick Hughes, and drawings by Bill Jacklin (Bottom right)
Duncan Grant
century British artists, and include one by and Colin Self. q
Venus and Adonis 1918/19
Augustus John, Lyric Fantasy, and a major Oil on canvas 25 x 37 in.
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