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Tennis
Tennis

Image credit: Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives

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The panels of this triptych decorated the door of Sir Geoffrey Fry's Music Room in Portman Square, London. Eric Ravilious based the tennis court on the Manor Gardens at Eastbourne and treated the panels as a continuous composition, with the game's progress and the players' gestures linking the three parts. Many viewers find the atmosphere of the painting rather tense. Ravilious was also a distinguished wood engraver, a landscape watercolourist and a designer of ceramics for Wedgwood. All of his work is characterised by a taut control of design. He became a war artist but was killed during a flight off Iceland.

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

Bristol

Title

Tennis

Date

1930

Medium

tempera on plywood

Measurements

H 82.5 x W 49 cm

Accession number

K1562

Acquisition method

gift from Sir Geoffrey and The Honourable Lady Fry, 1945

Work type

Painting

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