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The Broken Kylin, 1946

© the estate of Anthony Green RA. Photo credit: Herbert Art Gallery & Museum

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Green's paintings tell of events (real or imagined) in his own and his family's lives.

This work shows the artist's father coming up the stairs to see his grandmother standing uncertainly at the top of the stairs after having knocked over and broken the tail off a Chinese pottery animal ('Kylin'). Green sets the date of this particular event as 1946.

Herbert Art Gallery & Museum

Coventry

Title

The Broken Kylin, 1946

Date

1980

Medium

oil on board

Measurements

H 45.7 x W 47 cm

Accession number

VA.1981.0002

Acquisition method

purchased with the assistance of the Museums and Galleries Commission/Victoria and Albert Museum Purchase Grant Fund, 1981

Work type

Painting

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Herbert Art Gallery & Museum

Jordan Well, Coventry, West Midlands CV1 5QP England

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