© Image: The Estate of Eliot Hodgkin; © Photo: Tate, London, 2015
Undergrowth
1941
Tempera
41 × 37 cm (16 1/4 × 14 1/2 in)
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Painted in London in 1941 during the artist's ‘days off’ while serving as an air-raid warden, from drawings of plants and flowers made near Purley, Berkshire. He began painting in tempera in 1937 and this was the eighth tempera painting he did (letter of 31 October 1957).
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1943 to the Tate
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