λ CLAUDE ROGERS (BRITISH 1907-1979) STUDY FOR 'THE PATIENT OPPOSITE' Pencil 17.5 x 25cm (6¾ x 9¾ in.) Painted in 1952. Provenance: Anderson Consulting Collection Exhibited: London, Arts Council, Drawings for Pictures, 1953, no. 32 Newcastle, Hatton Gallery, Claude Rogers, 1955, no. 55 London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Claude Rogers, 1973, no. 102, and on tour to Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Reading Museum & Art Gallery, Southampton Art Gallery, Bradford City Art Gallery & Mappin Gallery Sheffield Literature: Jeny Pery, The Life of Claude Rogers, 1997, pp. 128-129 (illustrated pl. 45) The present lot is the pencil study for a small oil painting now held in the Tate Collection. The drawing was made in March 1952 when Rogers was a patient at St. Mary's Hospital in Paddington. The patient lying opposite was a Greek gentleman who had been admitted to hospital for septic hand. The work was originally exhibited in 1952 with the title, 'Scene in a Hospital Ward.'
λ CLAUDE ROGERS (BRITISH 1907-1979) STUDY FOR 'THE PATIENT OPPOSITE' Pencil 17.5 x 25cm (6¾ x 9¾ in.) Painted in 1952. Provenance: Anderson Consulting Collection Exhibited: London, Arts Council, Drawings for Pictures, 1953, no. 32 Newcastle, Hatton Gallery, Claude Rogers, 1955, no. 55 London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Claude Rogers, 1973, no. 102, and on tour to Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Reading Museum & Art Gallery, Southampton Art Gallery, Bradford City Art Gallery & Mappin Gallery Sheffield Literature: Jeny Pery, The Life of Claude Rogers, 1997, pp. 128-129 (illustrated pl. 45) The present lot is the pencil study for a small oil painting now held in the Tate Collection. The drawing was made in March 1952 when Rogers was a patient at St. Mary's Hospital in Paddington. The patient lying opposite was a Greek gentleman who had been admitted to hospital for septic hand. The work was originally exhibited in 1952 with the title, 'Scene in a Hospital Ward.'
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