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Presentation: Framed
Signed and titled on a label on the reverse
oil on canvas
16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 51 cm.)

In silver gilded whistler style reeded double d section frame

This grisaille was one of a number of Zinkeisen paintings commissioned by ICI Ltd in the early 1940's as part of their Aspects of Industry series.  Other artists who contributed to the scheme included Cuneo, Pears, Wadsworth, Nevinson and Skeaping.  The title Above the Salt refers to the old custom, in the houses of people of rank, of placing a large saltcellar near the middle of a long table, the places above which were assigned to the guests of distinction, and those below to dependents, inferiors, and poor relations

Provenance: ICI collection
Literature: Joyce Watkins, The Studio, 123 (1942), pp 107-111, The Advertiser as Art Patron, ICI Ltd, reproduced, p.108

We are grateful to Philip Arthur Kelleway for assistance.