Updated 18 April 2025
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Driver Joe Shears and Corporal W. Atkin in the Gymnasium
| Materials and Techniques | Oil on canvas |
|---|---|
| Size（cm） | 68.0 x 79.2 |
| Credit Line | Ex-Matsukata Collection |
| Standard ref. | M617 |
| Category | Paintings |
| Collection Number | P.2017-0020 |
Provenance
Acquired from artist by The Leicester Galleries, London [gallery label on the reverse]; purchased from The Leicester Galleries by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe, 1 January 1918 (£157.5) [see The Leicester Galleries records in Ernest & Phillips Ltd. (copy in NMWA curatorial file)]; pledged by Matsukata to save his business, Kawasaki Dockyard, Co., Ltd., Kobe and then seized by Jugo Bank, Tokyo, 1927 [Jugo Bank label on the reverse]; private collection, Japan; deposited in NMWA, 15 January 2016, ref. no. 84; purchased by NMWA, 2017.
Exhibition History
- 2019
- The Matsukata Collection: A One-Hundred-Year Odyssey: Upon the 60th Anniversary of the NMWA, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11 June 2019 - 23 September 2019, cat. no. 51, col. repr.
- 2024
- Does the Future Sleep Here?: Revisiting the Museum's Response to Contemporary Art after 65 Years, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 12 March 2024 - 12 May 2024
Bibliography
- 1990
- The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 887.
- 2018
- The Matsukata Collection: Complete Catalogue of the European Art. Kawaguchi, Masako; Jingaoka, Megumi, eds. vol. 1: Paintings, Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2018, cat. no. 617, col. repr.
- 2019
- Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 52 (Apr. 2017-Mar. 2018), 2019, List of New Acquisitions. p. 21.
- 2019
- The Matsukata Collection: A One-Hundred-Year Odyssey (exh. cat.). Jingaoka, Megumi, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of the Western Art, Tokyo; Yomiuri Shimbun; NHK; NHK Promotions, 2019, pp. 128-129, 357, cat. no. 51, col. repr.