THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
Henry Tonks (1862-1937)

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Henry Tonks (1862-1937)

The Unknown God (Roger Fry preaching the New Faith, Clive Bell ringing the bell)

oil on canvas
16 x 22in. (41.5 x 56cm.)
Literature
J. Hone, The Life of Henry Tonks, London, 1939, pp.100, 360 (illustrated)
D. Sutton (Ed.), The Letters of Roger Fry, II, London, 1972, p.754, pl.93
Exhibited
London, N.E.A.C., Winter, 1923, no.86

Lot Essay

In his biography of Henry Tonks (loc. cit., p.101), Joseph Hone records the effect that Roger Fry's Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition at the Grafton Galleries (1912-3) had on his contemporaries 'when Fry began to lecture 'about some pictures he had seen in a town called Aix', disciples flocked, all the old figures reappearing, Timothy Apollos, Eunice, Lydia, all were there, for the world was weary of representative art, and the people went about crying, Cezannah, Cezannah'

The front row of the audience comprises (from left to right) Walter Richard Sickert, D.S. MacColl, George Moore, Philip Wilson Steer, Sir Eric Maclagan, John Singer Sargent and St. John Hutchinson

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