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artists:

Weight, Carel

artists:

Gilman, Harold

artists:

Wolfe, Edward

artists:

Wadsworth, Edward

artists:

Ocean, Humphrey

artists:

Johnstone, William

artists:

Schwarz, Hans, b. 1922

artists:

Rosoman, Leonard Henry

artists:

Kossoff, Leon

artists:

Philpot, Glyn

artists:

Lewis, Wyndham

artists:

Grant, Duncan

dates:

1980-1989

museums and institutions:

National Portrait Gallery, London, Great Britain

places:

England

subjects:

British painting / Loan of works of art

subjects:

Art museums / Acquisitions

Attributed works:

50. Virginia Woolf, by Duncan Grant. 1911. Board, 55.9 by 40.6 cm. Painted at 46 Gordon Square in the Year before the Author's Marriage. Loan.

Attributed works:

51. Self Portrait, by Edward Wadsworth. 1911. 39.8 by 34.8. Painted While the Artist Was at the Slade School of Fine Art. Loan.

Attributed works:

52. Self Portrait, by Edward Wolfe. c. 1923. 89.5 by 59.2 cm. Painted in Italy While Wolfe Was a Guest of Berenson at I Tatti.

Attributed works:

53. Self Portrait, by Harold Gilman. 61.6 by 46.2 cm. Unfinished Work Probably Painted c. 1916-18. Loan.

Attributed works:

54. Sir John Summerson, by Leonard Rosoman. 1984. 152.1 by 122 cm. The Subject is Shown in Sir John Soane's Museum, from Which He Retired Last Year as Director, Having Been Appointed There in 1945. 55. Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, by Hans Schwarz. 1969. Board, 122.2 by 81 cm. Pevsner in a Characteristic Attitude, Painted in the Year He Was Knighted. An Obituary of Pevsner was Published in This Magazine in April 1984. Schwarz Was Born in Vienna in 1922 and Came to England in 1939. 56. Richard Church, by William Johnstone. 1932. 91.5 by 71.6 cm. An Interesting Early Work by This Scottish Painter; Church was Best Known as a Poet at the Time of the Painting and Later Helped Edit the Well Known Everyman Anthology Poems of Our Time. 57. Philip Larkin, by Humphrey Ocean. 1984. Acrylic, 52.3 by 44.8 cm. Poet, Novelist, Jazz Critic and University Librarian at Hull; Painted in Hull at the Poet's Home.

Attributed works:

58. Dame Rebecca West, by Wyndham Lewis. 1932. Pencil, 43 by 31 cm. A Drawing from the Author's Extensive Collection Purchased by the Gallery in 1983, the Year She Died Aged Ninety-One. Her Novel This Real Night Was Published Posthumously Last Year. 59. Sir Oswald Mosley, by Glyn Philpot. 1925. 76.2 by 63.5 cm. The future Founder of the British Union of Fascists Seen Here at the Age of Twenty-Nine. A Portrait Recently Included in the NPG's Glyn Philpot Exhibition. Loan. 60. Self Portrait, by Leon Kossoff. 1981. Board, 42.4 by 33 cm. One of the Youngest Artists to be Represented in the Collection. 61. Self Portrait, by Carel Weight. c. 1930. 60.7 by 50.8 cm. Said to be the Artist's First Oil Painting, It Shows Him at the Age of Twenty-Two; In the Following Year Weight First Showed at the Royal Academy, of Which He Was Elected a Trustee in 1975.

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