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Girl Reading a Newspaper
Presented by Francis Howard 1922
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2001-09-09
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Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie (Frankfurt, Germany)
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Nottingham Contemporary (Nottingham, UK)
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2011-10-23
Klaus Weber Curated
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Fundación MAPFRE (Barcelona, Spain)
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The Pastel: The Renaissance of an art
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Girl Reading a Newspaper
support: 540 × 432 mm
frame: 720 × 615 × 75 mm
Presented by Francis Howard 1922
<p><b>Louis Anquetin</b> 1861-1932</p>
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/anquetin-girl-reading-a-newspaper-n03690" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N03690</span></a> <b>Jeune Femme lisant un Journal</b> (Girl reading a Newspaper) 1890</p>
<p>Inscribed 'Anquetin | 90' b.l. 
<br/>Pastel on paper mounted on millboard, 21 ¼ x 17 (54 x 43.5) 
<br/>Presented by Francis Howard 1922 
<br/><i>Prov</i>: Francis Howard, London (probably purchased from the artist through the International Society 1906) 
<br/><i>Exh</i>: Sixth Exhibition (Second Section), International Society, London, February-March 1906 (87) as 'Jeune Femme lisant un Journal'; <i>Paintings and Sculpture by Members of the National Portrait Society</i>, Cartwright Memorial Hall, Bradford, July-October 1910 (32) as 'Portrait (pastel)', lent by Francis Howard; <i>Modern Loan Exhibition</i>, Grosvenor Gallery, London, November 1917 (138) as 'Mont Matre [sic] Type' 
<br/><i>Lit</i>: William Rothenstein, <i>Men and Memories</i> (London 1931), Vol.1, p.64 
<br/><i>Repr: Burlington Magazine</i>, XLIV, 1924, p.203;. John Rothenstein, <i>Modern Foreign Pictures in the Tate Gallery</i> (London 1949), pl.75; Maurice Rheims, <i>The Age of Art Nouveau</i> (London 1966), pl.VIII in colour</p>
<p>Known for many years as 'The Absinthe Drinker', a title which seems to be incorrect. It is almost certainly the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/pastel" title="Glossary definition for 'Pastel'"><span>pastel</span></a> 'Girl reading a Newspaper' exhibited at the International Society in 1906; the donor was a member of the International Society's Executive Council.</p>
<p>Anquetin used the same model for another pastel called 'Woman on a Japanese Background', which was exhibited at the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/salon" title="Glossary definition for 'Salon'"><span>Salon</span></a> de la Société Nationale in May-July 1891 (953, repr.). The late Francis Howard said that he seemed to remember that visiting artists from Paris recognised her as a well-known model for similar pictures by several painters of women café frequenters (letter of 30 October 1953).</p>
<p><b>Published in</b>: Ronald Alley, <i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</i>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.14-15, reproduced p.14</p>

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adults clothing and personal items hat leisure and pastimes objects people reading recreational activities woman