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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