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Woman at a Window
Bequeathed by Frank Hindley Smith 1940
actions: postures and motions
adults
architecture
countries and continents
features
France, Jura
Friesz
hill
individuals: female
landscape
named individuals
people
places
portraits
sitting
window
woman
wooded
painting oil paint canvas
17 February 2007 – 27 January 2008
2008-01-27
17 February 2007 – 20 May 2007
2007-05-20
2007-02-17
La Piscine, Musée d’art et d’industrie (Roubaix, France)
16 June 2007 – 30 September 2007
2007-09-30
2007-06-16
Musée d’Art Moderne de Céret (Céret, France)
10 October 2007 – 27 January 2008
2008-01-27
2007-10-10
Musée Malraux (Le Havre, France)
2007-02-17
E Othon Friesz (1879-1949) un fauve baroque
Loan-out
Woman at a Window
support: 730 × 600 mm
frame: 890 × 760 × 92 mm
Bequeathed by Frank Hindley Smith 1940
<p><b>Othon Friesz</b><span> 1879-1949 </span>
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<p><span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/friesz-woman-at-a-window-n05071" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05071</span></a> </span><b>Jeune femme à la fenêtre</b><b>
</b><span>(Woman at a Window) 1919 </span>
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<p><span>Inscribed 'Othon Friesz' b.r.</span>
<br/><span>Oil on canvas, 28 3/4 x 23 5/8 (73 x 60)</span>
<br/><span>Bequeathed by Frank Hindley Smith 1940</span>
<br/><i>Prov:</i><span>
Frank Hindley Smith, Southport (purchased from the artist through the Independent Gallery, London, 1921)</span>
<br/><i>Exh:</i><span>
</span><i>Pictures by Othon Friesz</i><span>, Independent Gallery, London, May 1921 (1); </span><i>The CAS: Loan Exhibition of Modern Foreign Painting</i><span>, Colnaghi's Galleries, London, June-July 1924 (23); </span><i>Loan Collection of Pictures</i><span>, Norwich Museum, October-November 1925 (70)</span>
<br/><i>Lit:</i><span>
Maximilien Gauthier, </span><i>Othon Friesz</i><span> (Geneva 1957), p.79</span>
<br/><i>Repr:</i><span>
</span><i>Burlington Magazine</i><span>, XXXVIII, 1921, p.279; </span><i>Bulletin de la Vie Artistique</i><span>, III, No.15, 1 August 1922, p.355 </span>
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<p><span>Mme Friesz has written (letter of January 1952) that this is 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> of herself painted in the Jura in 1919. According to Gauthier, Mme Friesz visited the Jura for her health in the winter of 1919, and her husband painted various pictures there. </span>
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<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><span>Ronald Alley, </span><i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</i><span>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.227, reproduced p.227</span>
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2004-09-15T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions adults architecture countries and continents features France, Jura Friesz hill individuals: female landscape named individuals people places portraits sitting window woman wooded