Hip Bath
Maker
(Artists)
1886-1973
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)
Width: 52 cm (canvas)
Accession Number
P.1935.RF.111
Mode of Acquisition
Roger Fry Trustees, gift, 1935
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
© The Estate of Frederick Etchells. All rights reserved. DACS 2023
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."
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
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.
Inscription: inscription : signed by artist in initials : lower left hand corner & recto : : F.E.
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