Oil paint on canvas
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/christopher-richard-wynne-nevinson-1697" aria-label="More by Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson</a>
A Studio in Montparnasse
Presented by H.G. Wells 1927
actions: postures and motions
adults
animals: mammals
architecture
arts and entertainment
book - non-specific
cat
chair
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
couch
countries and continents
features
female
fine arts and music
flat
flower
food and drink
France
fruit - non-specific
furnishings
interiors
model
nudes
objects
Paris, 14th arrondissement
Paris, 14th arrondissement, Montparnasse
people
picture
places
plants and flowers
reading, writing, printed matter
residential
roof
standing
stool
studio
table
townscape
townscapes / man-made features
vase
vessels and containers
window
woman
work and occupations
workspaces
painting oil paint canvas
26 January 2002 – 3 September 2002
2002-09-03
26 January 2002 – 19 April 2002
2002-04-19
2002-01-26
Royal Academy of Arts (London, UK)
http://www.royalacademy.org.uk
21 May 2002 – 3 September 2002
2002-09-03
2002-05-21
Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao, Spain)
2002-01-26
Paris: Capital of the Arts, 1900-1968
Loan-out
1 August 2008 – 15 November 2008
2008-11-15
1 August 2008 – 15 November 2008
2008-11-15
2008-08-01
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (Middlesbrough, UK)
http://www.visitmima.com/
2008-08-01
Nudes
Loan-out
26 September 2009 – 16 May 2010
2010-05-16
26 September 2009 – 13 December 2009
2009-12-13
2009-09-26
Compton Verney (Compton Verney, UK)
9 February 2010 – 16 May 2010
2010-05-16
2010-02-09
Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts (Norwich, UK)
2009-09-26
The Artists studio
Loan-out
10 September 2011 – 8 January 2012
2012-01-08
10 September 2011 – 8 January 2012
2012-01-08
2011-09-10
Palazzo dei Diamanti (Ferrara, Italy)
2011-09-10
Les Années Folles. The Paris of Modigliani, Picasso and Dalì. 1918-1933
Loan-out
5 June 2013 – 22 September 2013
2013-09-22
5 June 2013 – 22 September 2013
2013-09-22
2013-06-05
Dulwich Picture Gallery (London, UK)
2013-06-05
A Crisis of Brilliance
Loan-out
5 November 2016 – 31 August 2025
2025-08-31
5 November 2016 – 5 February 2017
2017-02-05
2016-11-05
Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia)
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au
18 March 2017 – 16 July 2017
2017-07-16
2017-03-18
Auckland Art Gallery (Auckland, New Zealand)
11 August 2017 – 4 February 2018
2018-02-04
2017-08-11
Seoul Olympic Museum of Art (Seoul, South Korea)
24 March 2018 – 24 June 2018
2018-06-24
2018-03-24
Yokohama Museum of Art (Yokohama, Japan)
13 July 2018 – 28 October 2018
2018-10-28
2018-07-13
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts (Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
10 November 2023 – 14 April 2024
2024-04-14
2023-11-10
LWL-Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Westfälisches (Munster, Germany)
http://landesmuseum.lwl.org
23 November 2024 – 3 March 2025
2025-03-03
2024-11-23
Worcester Art Museum (Worcester, USA)
http://www.worcesterart.org
1 April 2025 – 31 August 2025
2025-08-31
2025-04-01
External
2016-11-05
Nude: art from the Tate collection
Tate partnerships & programmes
14 September 2019 – 5 January 2020
2020-01-05
14 September 2019 – 5 January 2020
2020-01-05
2019-09-14
Museum MORE (Gorssel, Netherlands)
2019-09-14
British Realist Painting in the 1920s and 1930s
Loan-out
A Studio in Montparnasse
support: 1270 × 762 mm
frame: 1425 × 913 × 68 mm

Presented by H.G. Wells 1927
<p><b>N04231</b> A STUDIO IN MONTPARNASSE <i>c.</i> 1925</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Inscr. ‘C. R. W. Nevinson’ b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 50×30 (127×76).
<br/>Presented by H. G. Wells 1927.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Leicester Galleries, March 1926 (55), as ‘Montparnasse’.
<br/><i>Lit:</i>
Nevinson, 1937, pp.177–8, repr. after p.216.</p>
<p>Based on a sketch made in the Paris studio of the author and journalist Sisley Huddleston, who, when 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/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> was first placed on view at the Tate Gallery, protested in a letter to the Paris edition of the <i>New York Herald Tribune</i>, 24 February 1927 (reprinted in many English newspapers), that the artist had introduced a nude figure not in the original sketch. The nude, standing by the window, not reclining on the couch as asserted by Sisley Huddleston, was, however, already in the picture when it was exhibited at the Leicester Galleries in 1926 (see reproduction in the <i>Sketch</i>, 3 March 1926). The artist did make certain alterations before the painting was presented to the Tate Gallery, but these consisted of the elimination of a bearded artist (quite unlike the Shakespeare-like appearance of Sisley Huddleston) at the easel, the looping up of the curtains which originally hung straight to show windows continuing on either side, and the addition of the book on the left-hand edge of the table.</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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Catalogue entry
2004-10-06T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: postures and motions adults animals: mammals architecture arts and entertainment book - non-specific cat chair cities, towns, villages (non-UK) couch countries and continents features female fine arts and music flat flower food and drink France fruit - non-specific furnishings interiors model nudes objects Paris, 14th arrondissement Paris, 14th arrondissement, Montparnasse people picture places plants and flowers reading, writing, printed matter residential roof standing stool studio table townscape townscapes / man-made features vase vessels and containers window woman work and occupations workspaces