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Winding Wool
Presented by Mrs R.M. Dunlop 1927
actions: postures and motions
adults
art and craft
Carrière family
children
daughter
domestic
family
girl
groups
interior - non-specific
interiors
knitting
leisure and pastimes
mother
named families
people
portraits
sitting
society
woman
painting oil paint canvas
5 March 1997
5 March 1997
1997-03-05
National Gallery (London, UK)
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk
1997-03-05
Long Loan to the National Gallery
Loan-out
1 February 2012 – 16 September 2012
2012-09-16
1 February 2012 – 1 June 2012
2012-06-01
2012-02-01
Statens Museum for Kunst (Copenhagen, Denmark)
14 June 2012 – 16 September 2012
2012-09-16
2012-06-14
Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung (Munich, Germany)
2012-02-01
Vilhelm Hammershoi and Europe
Loan-out
Winding Wool
frame: 876 × 995 × 130 mm
support: 597 × 733 mm
Presented by Mrs R.M. Dunlop 1927
<p><b>Eugène Carrière</b> 1849-1906</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/carriere-winding-wool-n04261" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04261</span></a> <b>Les Dévideuses</b> (Winding Wool) 1887</p>
<p>Inscribed 'Eugène Carrière' b.l. 
<br/>Oil on canvas, 23 1/2 x 28 7/8 (60 x 73) 
<br/>Presented by Mrs R.M. Dunlop 1927 
<br/><i>Prov</i>: Buxtorf-Koechlin; with Bernheim-Jeune, Paris; John G. Ure, Glasgow; Ure sale, Christie's, London, 29 April 1911, lot 10; bt. in at £714; with or through Goupil, London; Mrs R.M. Dunlop 
<br/><i>Exh</i>: Salon des Artistes Français, Paris, May-June 1887 (456); La Libre Esthétique, Brussels, March-April 1907 (Carrière 2); <i>L'Oeuvre d'Eugène Carrière</i>, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, May-June 1907 (31), lent by Bernheim-Jeune; <i>48th Exhibition of Works by Modern Artists</i>, Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Glasgow, February-May 1909 (113, repr.), lent by J.G. Ure; <i>Spring Exhibition</i>, Goupil Gallery, London, March-April 1926 (67); <i>Eugène Carrière 1849-1906: Seer of the Real</i>, Allentown Art Museum, November 1968-January 1969 (11, repr.); High Museum, Atlanta, February-March 1969 (11, repr.); Akron Art Institute, May-August 1969 (11, repr.); California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, November 1969-January 1970 (11, repr.); Minneapolis Institute of Arts, February-April 1970 (11, repr.) 
<br/><i>Lit</i>: Charles Morice, <i>Eugène Carrière</i> (Paris 1906), p.246; P. Desjardins, 'Eugène Carrière' in <i>Gazette des Beaux-Arts</i>, July 1907, p.26, repr. p.25; Gabriel Séailles, <i>Eugène Carrière</i> (Paris 1911), No.24, p.263 <bt><i>Repr</i>: Gustave Geffroy, <i>L'Oeuvre de E. Carrière</i> (Paris 1902), pl.26</bt></p>
<p>Mme Elise Delvolvé-Carrière in a letter of 1 May 1951 has identified the sitters as the artist's wife and herself, his eldest daughter, born in 1878. Carrière was awarded a second class medal 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> of 1887 for this picture and his other exhibit, 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/p/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portrait</span></a>.</p>
<p>Another, much smaller picture of the same theme, said to have been painted in 1886, was in the sale of works from Carrière's studio at the Galerie Manzi et Joyant, Paris, on 2-3 February 1920, lot 79 repr. It measures 18 x 35cm and shows the mother with two children.</p>
<p><b>Published in</b>: 
<br/>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.96-7, reproduced p.96</p>

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2004-09-15T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions adults art and craft Carrière family children daughter domestic family girl groups interior - non-specific interiors knitting leisure and pastimes mother named families people portraits sitting society woman