Anglo Dutch
Artist: John Tunnard (1900 - 1971)
Location: Imperial War Museum
Date: 1942
Materials: tempera and oil on board
Dimensions: 65 x 95 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £22,000 (Total: £42,000)
Vendor: Peter Nahum
Review number: 4834 (2000)
Provenance:
T Roche; Whitford & Hughes; present vendor
Description:
Tunnard was an Auxiliary Coastguard in Cornwall during the Second World War and spent his hours on duty observing shipping passing through the English Channel. Anglo Dutch probably refers to a cargo ship or tanker. It is one of his most exquisitely Constructivist works, in which the majestic architectural shape that dominates the picture plane is overlaid with a passing cavalcade of transparent and mysterious forms; the abstract outline of a ship's rudder, weather dogs, signal masts and the triangles and dots of chart symbols. Extract from an article in the 2000 Art Fund Review by Angela Weight.
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