24th October 2016
Paul Nash sculpture found in cardboard box reassembled for Tate Britain show (bbc.co.uk).
Paul Nash (Wikipedia) being the British modernist/surrealist painter and WWI and WWII war artist of course.
“A surrealist sculpture by British war artist Paul Nash discovered in pieces in a cardboard box will go on show this week at Tate Britain. Moon Aviary, last exhibited in 1942 and thought lost for decades, was found this year in a London archive. It has been reassembled for a major retrospective of Nash’s work that opens on Wednesday. … The 1937 artwork had been thought by art experts to be lost or destroyed. Moon Aviary had last been shown at surrealist exhibitions in Britain in the late 1930s and early 1940s. … Ms Chambers said Tate Britain had been contacted in May after a box containing ‘pieces of wood and ivory bobbins’ was found in a privately-owned art archive.”
“Privately-owned art archive” being a euphemism for somebody’s loft.
“The reassembled work was installed in the exhibition on Friday alongside three other surviving surrealist assemblages. … The exhibition runs at Tate Britain until 5 March. ”
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