Count Tossa's Children

Details

Hilda Carline (1889-1950)
Count Tossa's Children
signed and dated 'Hilda Carline/1920' (lower right)
oil on canvas
51 x 34½ in. (129.5 x 87.6 cm.)

Exhibited

Lincoln, Usher Gallery, The Art of Hilda Carline, Mrs Stanley Spencer, 16 January - 7 March 1999, no.23: this exhibition travelled to Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 13 March - 7 May 1999; London, Kenwood House, 15 May - 11 July 1999; York, York City Art Gallery, 24 July- 29 August 1999; and to Swansea, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, 11 September - 7 November 1999.

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Lot Essay

It is not know who Count Tossa and his children are, but it is presumed that Hilda met the family while on a painting tour of the Italian Alps in 1920. The present work was submitted for the Slade Summer Composition Prize in 1921.

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