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Sketches and notes of Bernard Meninsky

[c.1926–51]

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This collection features a series of sketches and artworks by Bernard Meninsky which were donated to Tate by his second wife, Nora. The majority of this collection, which features sketches of landscapes, still-life drawings, portrait and profile view sketches of male and female figures, and sketches of the female form, with annotations by the artist, is now available to view online.

Further details on this collection are available on the archive catalogue.

Collection Owner
Nora Meninsky
Collection
Tate Archive
Acquisition
Presented to Tate Archive by the Contemporary Art Society in memory of Cecily Lowenthal, 1997.
Reference
TGA 9715

204 objects in this collection

  • Sketches and notes of Bernard Meninsky

    204 Objects

    • Sketches by Bernard Meninsky

      204 Objects

Title
Sketches and notes of Bernard Meninsky
Date
[c.1926–51]
Description
This collection features a series of sketches and artworks by Bernard Meninsky which were donated to Tate by his second wife, Nora. The majority of this collection, which features sketches of landscapes, still-life drawings, portrait and profile view sketches of male and female figures, and sketches of the female form, with annotations by the artist, is now available to view online.

Further details on this collection are available on the archive catalogue.
Reference
TGA 9715

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Sketch of a profile of a male face facing left

Bernard Meninsky
1926

Sketch of a reclining female nude

Bernard Meninsky
1935

Sketch entitled, ‘A sketch of a boy in train’

Bernard Meninsky
date not known

Sketch entitled, ‘16th cent. Nobile Ornata’

Bernard Meninsky
date not known

Sketch entitled, ‘Arlecchino’

Bernard Meninsky
date not known

Sketch entitled, ‘Cpt. Spersa Monti’, and an untitled sketch of three male figures in motion carrying swords

Bernard Meninsky
date not known

Sketches male figures in motion entitled, ‘Cpt. Cardoni’ and ‘Bagattino’

Bernard Meninsky
date not known

Sketches of male figures in motion entitled, ‘Squaquani’, ‘Cpt. Grillo’, and ‘Ratjadi Bow’

Bernard Meninsky
date not known

Sketch entitled, ‘Swords’

Bernard Meninsky
date not known

Sketches of buildings with surrounding hills and trees, and a mountain

Bernard Meninsky
date not known

Sketch of mountains, a tree and the rooftops of buildings.

Bernard Meninsky
date not known

Sketches of a landscape viewed from a rooftop, and telegraph poles

Bernard Meninsky
date not known

Four pages from a sketchbook containing three untitled sketches of landscape scenes

Bernard Meninsky
date not known

Four pages from a sketchbook containing sketches of a landscape scene with buildings, and a fallen tree

Bernard Meninsky
date not known

Sketch of a clothed female torso

Bernard Meninsky
date not known

Sketch of a profile of a female head and a partially drawn male nude

Bernard Meninsky
date not known

Sketches of two male figures

Bernard Meninsky
date not known

Sketches of a standing male nude, legs and a torso

Bernard Meninsky
date not known

Sketch of a standing male nude

Bernard Meninsky
date not known

Sketch of a standing male figure

Bernard Meninsky
date not known
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