E. D. Kinzinger (1888-1963)
St Tropez
1931
graphite on paper
220 x 280mm
Private collection, New Zealand
Reproduced with the kind permission of Nancy Kinzinger
BC099
Untitled
[Cubist drawing, St Tropez]
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]
Details
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, possibly foxing, at lower right. Pinhole evident LL corner.
Copyright Licence
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
General notes
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 spring 1932 when Scales was in St Tropez, France, before returning to New Zealand in time to exhibit three paintings in the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts Autumn Exhibition that same year, opening 2 June.
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.” "A hilly landscape with houses and a distinctive domed church in the middle distance."
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