The Carafe

Details

Geoffrey Tibble (1909-1952)
The Carafe
signed 'Tibble' (lower left), signed again and dated 'Tibble '46' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm.)

Exhibited

London, Tooths, Exhibition of Paintings by Geoffrey Tibble, November - December 1946, no. 13.

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Lot Essay

Tooth's show of Tibble's work in 1946, featuring figures in interiors in the manner of Degas and Vuillard, prompted Raymond Mortimer to place him 'in the front rank of living English painters' (see D. Buckman, The Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945, Bristol, 1998, p. 1191).

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