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CARRIÈRE, Eugène (1849 - 1906)
Media: oil on canvas
Size: 54.8 x 73.3 cm
Acquired: 1952; Bequest; Gwendoline Davies
Accession Number: NMW A 2174
Collection: The Davies Sisters Collection
This work is closely related to a painting exhibited in 1890 under the title Slumber and an etching of 1888 titled Realities with the magic of a dream. Carrière often repeated his favourite compositions, which represent emotional states rather than specific individuals. In 1906 a critic a commented on this quality of his work: 'It is the soul stripped of formal accidents, It is mankind hidden under the fiction of an individual personality'. Gwendoline Davies purchased this painting in 1914.
Comments - (11)
I saw it a few years ago and it took my breath away, however on subsequent visits, it hasn't been available to view.
Would love to see it again.
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