Beschreibung:

GINNER, Charles (1879-1952). Four unpublished autograph notebooks comprising a complete list of his paintings and drawings, 1908-1952, with details of sales, gifts, exhibitions, reproductions and articles referring to his work, also indices of his clients, providing a full and unique record of the artist's works, (including approximately 6 pages in the handwriting of his sister, Mrs. Ruby Dyer), written on lined paper, approximately 600 pages, 8° in four notebooks (volumes I-III, 180 x 110 mm., volume IV, 200 x 155 mm., covers of volume I detached) . The notebooks provide an indispensable source of information for the study of the work of this important modern British painter. The first entry, dated 1908, is for The Sunlit Wall (Paysage à Charenton) , which Ginner exhibited at Buenos Aires in 1909, and at the Camden Town Group's first show in 1911. A typically detailed entry for The Cafe Royal , now in the Tate Gallery, shows that after its completion in 1911 it was exhibited at the Allied Artists Assocation, the Carfax Gallery and in two other exhibitions before being presented to 'Allied Week' at Brighton where it was sold to Douglas Fox-Pitt-for #5-5-0. Sold again at the Redfern Gallery in 1938 for eighteen guineas to Ginner's friend Edward le Bas it was presented to the Tate in 1939. After Ginner's death in January 1952, his sister, Mrs. Ruby Dyer (who was herself a distinguished figure in the revival and teaching of Greek dancing) noted in volume IV Ginner's bequests, pictures given away and details of the memorial exhibition at the Royal Academy. (4)