Study for No. 14 Filling Station, Hereford

細節

Charles Ginner, A.R.A. (1878-1952)
Study for No. 14 Filling Station, Hereford
signed 'Charles Ginner' (lower right), and inscribed 'FILLING FACTORY - HEREFORD oil 10 feet x 12 feet/sold to CANADIAN WAR RECORDS' (under the mount)
ink, wax crayon and watercolour
16¾ x 21½ in. (42.6 x 54.6 cm.)

來源

with Agnews, London.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 9 March 1990, lot 205.

注意事項

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

登入

瀏覽狀況報告

拍品專文

In 1917 Ginner joined the Royal Ordinance Corps and in 1917 he became an official war artist for the Canadian government. One of his commissions was an oil painting of No 14 Filling Station at Hereford to demonstrate the role women were playing in the munitions factories. Ginner spent time there making sketches. This work is a preparatory study for the final full sized work now in the National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa which measures ten by eleven feet. The final study in oils of the same scene was exhibited earlier this year at the Tate Britain (London, Tate Britain, Modern Painters: The Camden Town Group, February - May 2008, no. 101).
Robert Upstone comments 'The angular, repeated drawing of the rows of women gives them a kind of mechanised character, as if the experience of war work has turned them into human machines, producing material of death' (Exhibition catalogue, Modern Painters: The Camden Town Group, Tate Gallery, London, 2008, p. 172).