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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
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.
Work was part of the AFA tour (2009-2010): From Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National Museum Wales
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