1633629691000 1633609613000 Standard Record object-306966 1747246457652 1732721251000 1747245848947 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-306966 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/306966 65a035e3-a16a-3536-a757-d9d3a073731f 6 reference term-30982 adlib-term-30982 952a2227-ce0e-31a3-a0d9-40085991be5b tile reference term-37418 adlib-term-37418 094f2c84-dc70-3a83-80cd-d0464924a992 ceramic Applied Arts Large ceramic tile/panel, painted, depicting a naked woman with blonde hair swinging from a branch, in front of a naked man, a male water nymph, both arms raised, from whose navel water spurts into a pool below. Tile/panel edged with metal (lead?) C.4-2021 1 accession number C.4-2021 306966 priref 306966 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/306966 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/306966 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Bequeathed by Tom Rosenthal reference agent-194078 adlib-agent-194078 efbc1100-24d1-39a0-b142-cd46de581fe0 Rosenthal, Tom 2021 2021 2021-09-27 bequeathed 1950 1950 1950 1950 1951 1 1951 1951 1951 artist reference agent-16681 adlib-agent-16681 14650290-e21b-315b-b237-6a39471ddbb7 Boyd, Arthur Merric Bloomfield Arthur Boyd (1920–99) was one of Australia’s leading twentieth-century artists. Best-known for his paintings and drawings, he also made ceramic (tile) paintings from 1949 onwards. Working in both Impressionist and Expressionist styles, much of Boyd’s work was set in the Australian landscape and often had a strong social conscience or took Biblical stories as its starting point. Boyd began making tile (ceramic) paintings in 1949. He lived in England between 1959 and 1968, showing his ceramics paintings at the Zwemmer Gallery in 1960 and recent work at the Whitechapel Gallery, in 1962. Tom Rosenthal, critic and publisher, who bequeathed this tile, described the ‘passionate and obsessive humanism of Arthur Boyd’ and was a great supporter of his work. This is one of 9 tiles that comprised 'The Temptation of St Anthony' (1950–51), one of Boyd’s largest ceramic ‘pictures’. It is described by Franz Philipp in his 1967 study of Boyd as follows: ‘The main female temptress is suspended from a bare branch in a swing of full exposure, her background companion, a very literal fountain nymph, spews the waterjet into the pool.’ This subject was favoured by Bosch and by the sixteenth-century Mannerists and was usually given a strongly erotic flavour, echoed here by Boyd. reference term-110488 adlib-term-110488 4503a73a-ae49-3f4d-8814-88925dcd11a3 20th Century, Mid reference term-107799 adlib-term-107799 c6827a8a-d93c-3d60-817e-5c9654bfa81b literal Australia Australia country Australia reference term-37418 adlib-term-37418 094f2c84-dc70-3a83-80cd-d0464924a992 ceramic Length cm 55 Width cm 53 reference term-30982 adlib-term-30982 952a2227-ce0e-31a3-a0d9-40085991be5b tile reference term-136470 adlib-term-136470 4b3056ec-c549-3afb-b65a-20a9fa9e5fea Ceramic panel reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum

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