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Nude
Bequeathed by Frank Hindley Smith 1940
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<p>Vanessa Bell usually painted still lifes and portraits of her family, but she experimented briefly with abstract art when encouraged by Roger Fry and Duncan Grant. The subject here is a professional model, and the picture was probably painted as an exercise when Bell returned seriously to painting after bringing up her daughter. She then visited Paris, where she admired the new paintings by Picasso of monumental nudes. Her still lifes always give a sense of the pleasure of touch, with warm earth colours, and these are also features of her appraisal of this plump young woman.This painting was chosen by Wendy Cope.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
11 February 2002 – 21 April 2002
2002-04-21
11 February 2002 – 21 April 2002
2002-04-21
2002-02-11
Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery (Norwich, UK)
http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk
2002-02-11
The Body in the Twentieth Century
Tate partnerships & programmes
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
19 October 2024 – 7 September 2025
2025-09-07
1 October 2024 – 31 January 2025
2025-01-31
2024-10-01
MK Gallery (Milton Keynes, UK)
26 March 2025 – 7 September 2025
2025-09-07
2025-03-26
Charleston (Lewes, UK)
2024-10-19
Vanessa Bell
Loan-out
Nude
support: 813 × 654 mm
frame: 1028 × 865 × 110 mm
Bequeathed by Frank Hindley Smith 1940
<p>Vanessa Bell usually painted <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/still-life" title="Glossary definition for 'Still life'"><span>still lifes</span></a> and <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>portraits</span></a> of her family, but she experimented briefly with <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/a/abstract-art" title="Glossary definition for 'Abstract art'"><span>abstract</span></a> art when encouraged by Roger Fry and Duncan Grant. The subject here is a professional model, and the picture was probably painted as an exercise when Bell returned seriously to <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> after bringing up her daughter. She then visited Paris, where she admired the new paintings by Picasso of monumental nudes. Her still lifes always give a sense of the pleasure of touch, with warm earth colours, and these are also features of her appraisal of this plump young woman.<br/>This painting was chosen by Wendy Cope.</p>
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<p><b>N05077</b> NUDE <i>c.</i> 1922–3
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<br/>Not inscribed.
<br/>Canvas, 32×25 3/4 (81×65).
<br/>Bequeathed by Frank Hindley Smith 1940.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> P.M. Turner; Frank Hindley Smith 1928.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> (?) London Group, October–November 1924 (12).</p>
<p>Painted in London about 1922 or 1923 (letter from the artist, 22 February 1956).</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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Catalogue entry
2004-07-20T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions adults arts and entertainment chair female furnishings model nudes objects people sitting woman work and occupations