DOI Heft:
No. 344 (November 1912)
DOI Artikel:Galerien, Theodore: The renaissance of the Tate Gallery
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21393#0210
THE RENAISSANCE OF THE TATE GALLERY
' A KENSINGTON INTERIOR
BY FRANK L. EMANUEL
taneously rather than to have been Tribunaux at Dieppe,with the wonderful re-
painted, a a e) a 0 flections in the shop window, a masterpiece
These are but a few of the paintings in itself. These are permanent possessions
which help to make up the modern side of of the Gallery, and among the best; his
the most complete exhibition of British art Ennui, the complete expression of boredom,
which has ever been seen. What was a is lent by the Contemporary Art Society,
notable gap in the collection is filled by There are many remarkable pictures
much sound, original, and sometimes among the loans, too numerous to mention,
brilliant work which might be described as The most notable is probably Mr. Eric
the flower of the New English Art Club. Kennington's painting of The Kensingtons,
Mr. Walter Sickert, whose work was en- lent by Lady Cowdray. This painting
tirely absent from the collection when the derives a curiously hard and superficial
Gallery was closed in 1916, is now repre- quality from the fact that it is painted on
sented by some striking examples of his glass. It has a noisy and obtrusive manner
very personal art—his witty, if slightly due to the material alone. It is a little un-
malicious, portrait of George Moore ; that kind to the other pictures, which, with the
much earlier painting of the Cafe des exception of Mr. Guevara's Portrait of Miss
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' A KENSINGTON INTERIOR
BY FRANK L. EMANUEL
taneously rather than to have been Tribunaux at Dieppe,with the wonderful re-
painted, a a e) a 0 flections in the shop window, a masterpiece
These are but a few of the paintings in itself. These are permanent possessions
which help to make up the modern side of of the Gallery, and among the best; his
the most complete exhibition of British art Ennui, the complete expression of boredom,
which has ever been seen. What was a is lent by the Contemporary Art Society,
notable gap in the collection is filled by There are many remarkable pictures
much sound, original, and sometimes among the loans, too numerous to mention,
brilliant work which might be described as The most notable is probably Mr. Eric
the flower of the New English Art Club. Kennington's painting of The Kensingtons,
Mr. Walter Sickert, whose work was en- lent by Lady Cowdray. This painting
tirely absent from the collection when the derives a curiously hard and superficial
Gallery was closed in 1916, is now repre- quality from the fact that it is painted on
sented by some striking examples of his glass. It has a noisy and obtrusive manner
very personal art—his witty, if slightly due to the material alone. It is a little un-
malicious, portrait of George Moore ; that kind to the other pictures, which, with the
much earlier painting of the Cafe des exception of Mr. Guevara's Portrait of Miss
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