signed and dated ‘John Tunnard/42’ (lower left) and numbered ‘0.69’ (on the reverse)
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Installation, 1942
Provenance:
with Zwemmer Gallery, London
Exhibition History:
London, Redfern Gallery, John Tunnard, July – August 1942 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, no. 11);
Chichester, Pallant House, Tunnard Inner Space to Outer Space, March – June 2010;
London, RCA, A Perfect Place to Grow, 16 November 2012 – 3 January 2013;
Woking, The Lightbox, The Road to Abstraction, 21 May – 24 July 2016;
Somerset, Hestercombe Gallery, Shifting Ground, 11 November 2016 – 26 February 2017;
Kendal, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Land | Sea | Life: A British Art Collection, 20 October 2017 – 17 February 2018
Literature:
A. Peat and B. Whitton, John Tunnard His Life and Work, Aldershot, 1997 (p. 160, no. 257)
John Tunnard’s biographer, Brian Whitton, writes about Installation that, “1942 was the year when the various aspects of Tunnard’s approach to painting seemed to gel and he produced paintings which are recognisably by him and no other. As with the present work even the more abstract paintings increasingly came to hint at distant space. At this time too the previously firm outlines of abstract shapes were often softened in some way, such as the haze in this painting, suggesting structures through a sea-mist.”
