Man in a Shirt Drawer
Entry ID
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136 (22/02/2022)
Formal title of the work
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Man in a Shirt Drawer
Description of the sculpture
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Portrait of an individual against a yellow background painted onto the inside base of a drawer. The individual is depicted with cropped hair, pale pink lips, yellow eye shadow and wearing a blue blazer with an orange undershirt. The front of the wooden drawer has two brass handles.
URLs where this is recorded/available
Type of object
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Other
Base
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No base
Dimensions
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Height: 46.8 cm
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Width: 39 cm
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Depth: 20.2 cm
Materials
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Wood (unidentified)
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Paint / pigment
Specific techniques used
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Polychromy
Overall colour
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Polychrome
Does the Black person have a specific identity?
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Anonymous: specific individual but not currently identifiable
Role within sculpture
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Main protagonist
Gender
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Uncertain
Age
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Adult
Clothing
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Wearing clothes – European/Western clothing
Evidence of enslavement
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None
Evidence of 'exotic' status
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None
Action or activity
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Not relevant (head)
Emotional state
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Neutral/emotionless
Focus of gaze of Black person
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Looking sideways
Sculptor
Place of production
Period of production
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Twenty-first century (2000 -2099)
Date of Production
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2017 - 18
Date inferred from
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Recorded in related documentation
Original purpose
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Unknown
Original display setting
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Unknown
Current owner
Current / most recently known location
Accession number
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T15155
Provenance history
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2019: purchased by the Tate with funds provided by the Denise Coates Foundation on the occasion of the 2018 centenary of women gaining the right to vote in Britain
Notes
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This sculpture is displayed affixed to the gallery wall at eye-level on its side, so that the drawer projects at right angles to the wall.
Current rights holder
License terms for reuse
http://13.41.147.145/s/database/item/1114, . (no date) ‘Man in a Shirt Drawer’, Black People in European Sculpture, accessed May 5, 2025, http://13.41.147.145/s/database/item/1120
