Hip Bath

Copyright

Maker

1886-1973

Title

Hip Bath

Date of Production

c. 1911-12

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

Height: 62.3 cm (canvas)
Width: 52 cm (canvas)

Object Number

P.1935.RF.111

Mode of Acquisition

Roger Fry Trustees, gift, 1935

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

On display

Keywords

Label Text

This painting was first exhibited in 1912 at a time when Etchells was associated with Roger Fry and the artists of the Bloomsbury Group. Fry bought it that year and displayed it in the hall at Durbins, his house near Guildford. Etchells joined Fry’s Omega workshop in 1913 but left to form a rival group under the leadership of the writer and artist Wyndham Lewis. The stylised figure, the strange flattening of the bath and the unfinished appearance offended conventional taste and Etchells was accused by one critic of setting out to "merely play the clown and lose all sense of responsibility."

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : title : upper left hand corner & recto : : THE HIP BATH

Inscription: inscription : signed by artist in initials : lower left hand corner & recto : : F.E.

Provenance

Roger Fry (1866 - 1934); Gift of the Roger Fry Trustees, 1935

Exhibition History

Uproar! The First 50 years of the London Group. 1913-1963, Ben Uri Gallery, London, 30/10/2013-01/03/2014

The Nude: 19th & 20th Century Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, Prints, Morley Gallery, London, 10/04/1975-24/05/1975

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