The Rex Whistler Room

[Rex Whistler & Edith Olivier].

Tate Gallery. London. [c.1954.] Paperback, octavo; concertina folding card pamphlet. 18 pages. Continuous colour reproduction of the original mural with text below; self-portrait of Whistler to the cover. English. 205 x 125mm. 0.1kg. . Near fine.

A reproduction of Rex Whistler's mural sequence at the Tate Gallery Restaurant, with a fanciful written description. The mural, titled "In Pursuit of Rare Meats", was completed by Whistler in 1927 after a year and a half of work. It features a dream-like, pastoral landscape through which travels a mis-matched hunting party. The mural reproduction is accompanied by a text created by Edith Olivier and published posthumously as 'In Pursuit of Rare Meats, being the story of the Rex Whistler Murals on the Tate Gallery Restaurant' at around the same time as the current pamphlet. The presence of a black child captured by a maid and the child's mother climbing a tree are racially problematic, compounded by their placement within a restaurant.