Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Contemporary Art Society
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sir-william-rothenstein-1874" aria-label="More by Sir William Rothenstein" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Sir William Rothenstein</a>
Two Women
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1924
actions: expressive
adults
clothing and personal items
dress
eroticism
hat, bonnet
holding hands
objects
people
sex and relationships
society
woman
painting oil paint canvas
Two Women
support: 965 × 768 mm
Presented by the <a href="/search?gid=999999975" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Contemporary Art Society</a> 1924
<p><b>N03844</b> TWO WOMEN <i>c.</i> 1895</p>
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<p>Not inscribed.
<br/>Canvas, 38×30 1/4 (95·5×76·5).
<br/>Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1924.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Presumably acquired direct from the artist by Dalhousie Young, who presented it to the C.A.S. 1911.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> N.E.A.C., April 1895 (75), as ‘A Panel, being part of a scheme for the decoration of a room’; C.A.S., <i>Loan Exhibition</i>, Manchester, winter 1911 (63); C.A.S., <i>Paintings and Drawings</i>, Grosvenor House, June–July 1923 (154), as ‘Two Women’.
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Speaight, 1962, p.70.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>The Savoy</i>, No.2, April 1896, p.165; R. H. Wilenski, <i>English Painting</i>, 1954, pl.162.</p>
<p>The frivolous romantic style of this <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a> is characteristic of Conder and was only a passing phase in the work of Rothenstein. The picture was severely criticized when it 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/n/new-english-art-club" title="Glossary definition for 'New English Art Club'"><span>N.E.A.C</span></a>.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, II
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2004-10-05T00:00:00
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actions: expressive adults clothing and personal items dress eroticism hat, bonnet holding hands objects people sex and relationships society woman