Untitled [Cubist drawing, St Tropez]

Catalogue

Church tower and neighbouring buildings against background hills. Left water and distant shoreline. Foreground road curves to right with vegetation, tree tilted to right margin. A veil of soft charcoal is shaded across the paper surface.

Date

c. 1934

1931

1932

Object type

drawing

Medium and materials

charcoal on paper

Dimensions

315x413mm

Place Made

St Tropez, France

Inscriptions

UL (not in artist's hand) pencil 79-207 A 262 32

Verso Centre (not in artist's hand) brown crayon Turnbill [sic]

Provenance

Donated to the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, by H. F. V. Scales, 1979

Condition Report

Unframed work on grey paper. Horizontal stain at lower right. Pinhole evident LL corner.

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Reference no. A-262-032

Current Collection

Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand

Current Location

Wellington, New Zealand

Keywords

landscape format landscape drawing France St Tropez houses trees hills middle years church buildings

Title and date supplied by artist at time of donation, 1979.

Possibly dates from the summer of 1931 (see Related artworks by other artists, E. D. Kinzinger, St Tropez, 1931). Another possible date could be the spring of 1932 when Scales may have returned to St Tropez, France.

This drawing of the Basilica and town of St Tropez is from a different location and viewpoint than that of Basilica and Lighthouse, St Tropez, Southern France [BC021] and others of this subject.

Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand documentation notes, “Scales’s only cubist drawing not destroyed by the occupying army in France, 1940s.”