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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/charles-conder-934" aria-label="More by Charles Conder" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Charles Conder</a>
Gossip
Presented by Lady Davis 1917
actions: expressive
actions: postures and motions
adults
group
groups
landscape
people
standing
talking
woman
wooded
<p>Before settling in London in 1901, Conder lived in Paris where his main occupation was painting figures on silk panels for fans and screens. He also painted decorations for dresses, and this is one of a number of watercolours that Conder made of women in sumptuous dresses, either engaged in conversation or sitting out at the theatre or a ball.</p><p>The influence of the French Rococo artist Antoine Watteau, is evident from both the style and subject matter of this watercolour.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting watercolour fabric
28 April 2003 – 18 April 2004
2004-04-18
28 April 2003 – 18 April 2004
2004-04-18
2003-04-28
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2003-04-28
Decadence
Collection based display
Gossip
support: 610 × 470 mm
Presented by Lady Davis 1917
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<span class="text16">Before settling in London in 1901, Conder lived in      Paris where his main occupation</span><span class="text0"> was <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/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a>      figures on silk panels for </span><span class="text17">fans and screens. He      also painted </span><span class="text16">decorations for dresses, and this      is one </span><span class="text20">of a number of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/watercolour" title="Glossary definition for 'Watercolour'"><span>watercolours</span></a> that Conder </span><span class="text16">made of women in sumptuous dresses, </span><span class="text20">either engaged in conversation or sitting </span><span class="text16">out at the theatre or a ball.  </span>
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<span class="text16">The influence</span><span class="text0"> </span><span class="text17">of the French <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/r/rococo" title="Glossary definition for 'Rococo'"><span>Rococo</span></a> artist Antoine </span><span class="text16">Watteau, is evident from both the </span><span class="text19">style      and subject matter of this watercolour</span><span class="text18">. </span>
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<p><b>N03195</b> GOSSIP <i>c.</i> 1904
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<br/>Not inscribed.
<br/>Watercolour on silk, 24×18 1/2 (61×47).
<br/>Presented by Lady Davis 1917.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Purchased by Sir Edmund Davis from the Leicester Galleries 1913.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> (?) Leicester Galleries, October 1904 (8), as ‘Les Causeuses’; Leicester Galleries, January 1913 (13), as ‘Gossip’.
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Gibson, 1914, p.100; Rothenstein, 1938, p.259.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> V. &amp; A., <i>Twentieth Century British Watercolours</i>, 1958, pl.2.</p>
<p>The artist often painted groups of ladies in elegant period costume, engaged in conversation, or sitting out at the theatre or ball. A <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/lithography" title="Glossary definition for 'Lithography'"><span>lithograph</span></a> entitled ‘Gossip’ was shown at the Society of Twelve in 1905 (63), and a fan ‘Les Causeuses’ was exhibited at the Galerie Moret, Paris, in 1901, but these <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>compositions</span></a> are not specifically related to <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/conder-gossip-n03195" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N03195</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, I</p>
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2004-10-05T00:00:00
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actions: expressive actions: postures and motions adults group groups landscape people standing talking woman wooded