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Girl in a Chemise
Bequeathed by C. Frank Stoop 1933
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<p>This is one of the first paintings Picasso made after moving from Barcelona to Paris in 1904. The painting relates stylistically to works of his so-called ‘rose period’. Even though this painting is predominantly blue, the warm pinkish-brown undertones in the background represent a transition towards a more colourful palette and lighter subject matter. The young woman portrayed here is likely Madeleine, Picasso’s regular model at the time. Her depiction bears similarities to his paintings of harlequins and travelling entertainers which featured heavily in Picasso’s rose period.</p><p><em>Gallery label, November 2019</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
5 June 2006 – 10 September 2006
2006-09-10
5 June 2006 – 10 September 2006
2006-09-10
2006-06-05
Museo Nacional del Prado (Madrid, Spain)
2006-06-05
Picasso. Tradición y Vanguardia
Loan-out
25 September 2011 – 15 January 2012
2012-01-15
25 September 2011 – 15 January 2012
2012-01-15
2011-09-25
Kunsthalle Bielefeld (Bielefeld, Germany)
http://www.kunsthalle-bielefeld.de
2011-09-25
Picasso 1905 in Paris
Loan-out
15 February 2012 – 4 November 2012
2012-11-04
15 February 2012 – 15 July 2012
2012-07-15
2012-02-15
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
4 August 2012 – 4 November 2012
2012-11-04
2012-08-04
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Edinburgh, UK)
http://www.nationalgalleries.org/
2012-02-15
Picasso and Modern British Art
Exhibition
4 August 2012 – 4 November 2012
2012-11-04
4 August 2012 – 4 November 2012
2012-11-04
2012-08-04
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Edinburgh, UK)
http://www.nationalgalleries.org/
2012-08-04
Picasso and Modern Art
Loan-out
7 February 2014 – 1 June 2014
2014-06-01
7 February 2014 – 1 June 2014
2014-06-01
2014-02-07
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (Frankfurt, Germany)
http://www.schirn.de
2014-02-07
Espirit Montmartre
Loan-out
19 April 2015 – 19 July 2015
2015-07-19
19 April 2015 – 19 July 2015
2015-07-19
2015-04-19
Palazzo dei Diamanti (Ferrara, Italy)
2015-04-19
La rosa de fuego. La Barcellona di Picasso e Gaudí
Loan-out
11 February 2016 – 11 February 2017
2017-02-11
11 February 2016 – 11 February 2017
2017-02-11
2016-02-11
New Art Gallery Walsall (Walsall, UK)
http://www.artatwalsall.org.uk/
2016-02-11
Interventions into The Garman Ryan Collection
Loan-out
5 September 2017 – 9 September 2018
2018-09-09
8 March 2018 – 9 September 2018
2018-09-09
2018-03-08
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2017-09-05
Pablo Picasso 1932
Exhibition
18 September 2018 – 16 June 2019
2019-06-16
18 September 2018 – 6 January 2019
2019-01-06
2018-09-18
Musée d’Orsay (Paris, France)
3 February 2019 – 16 June 2019
2019-06-16
2019-02-03
Fondation Beyeler (Riehen/Basel, Switzerland)
http://www.beyeler.com
2018-09-18
Picasso. Blue and Rose
Loan-out
12 October 2018
12 October 2018
2018-10-12
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2018-10-12
Ideas Depot
Collection based display
Girl in a Chemise
support: 727 × 600 mm
frame: 924 × 802 × 123 mm
Bequeathed by <a href="/search?gid=999999963" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">C. Frank Stoop</a> 1933
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<p>This is one of the first paintings Picasso made after moving from Barcelona to Paris in 1904. The painting relates stylistically to works of his so-called ‘rose period’. Even though this painting is predominantly blue, the warm pinkish-brown undertones in the background represent a transition towards a more colourful palette and lighter subject matter. The young woman portrayed here is likely Madeleine, Picasso’s regular model at the time. Her depiction bears similarities to his paintings of harlequins and travelling entertainers which featured heavily in Picasso’s rose period.</p>
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<p><b>Pablo Picasso</b><span> 1881-1973 </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/picasso-girl-in-a-chemise-n04720" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04720</span></a> </span><b>Jeune Femme en Chemise</b><span> (Girl in a Chemise) </span><i>c</i><span>.1905 </span>
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<p><span>Inscribed 'Picasso | 05' b.l.</span>
<br/><span>Oil on canvas, 28 5/8 x 23 5/8 (72.5 x 60)</span>
<br/><span>Bequeathed by C. Frank Stoop 1933</span>
<br/><i>Prov:</i><span>
With Galerie Kahnweiler, Paris (purchased from the artist 1909); with Alfred Flechtheim, Berlin; C. Frank Stoop, London, </span><i>c</i><span>.1911-12</span>
<br/><i>Exh:</i><span>
</span><i>Moderne Kunst Kring. Internationale Tentoonstelling van moderne Kunst</i><span>, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, October-November 1911 (98) as 'Tête de Jeune Fille'; </span><i>Works by Pablo Picasso</i><span>, Leicester Galleries, London, January 1921 (8) as 'Jeune Femme', lent by Frank Stoop; </span><i>The CAS: Second Loan Exhibition of Foreign Paintings</i><span>, M. Knoedler, London, February 1928 (43) as 'Portrait in Profile'; </span><i>Thirty Years of Pablo Picasso</i><span>, Lefevre Gallery, London, June 1931 (7); </span><i>Picasso</i><span>, Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, June 1932 (31) as 'Portrait de Jeune Femme'; Kunsthaus, Zurich, September-October 1932 (31); </span><i>Re-opening Exhibition</i><span>, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, October-December 1933 (597, repr.); </span><i>Picasso</i><span>, Tate Gallery, July-September 1960 (22, repr.); </span><i>Hommage à Pablo Picasso</i><span>, Grand Palais, Paris, November 1966-February 1967 (22, repr.); </span><i>Picasso</i><span>, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, March-May 1967 (7, repr.)</span>
<br/><i>Lit:</i><span>
J.H. Johnstone, 'La Collection Stoop' in </span><i>L'Amour de l'Art</i><span>, 1932, p.201; Christian Zervos, </span><i>Pablo Picasso</i><span> (Paris 1932), Vol.1, No.307, repr. pl.138 as 'Femme à la Chemise'; Georges Boudaille, Pierre Daix and Joan Rosselet, </span><i>Picasso 1900-1906</i><span>
(Neuchâtel 1966), No.XII.5, p.258 repr.</span>
<br/><i>Repr:</i><span>
John Rothenstein, </span><i>The Tate Gallery</i><span> (London 1958), p.135 in colour </span>
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<p><span>This picture is inscribed [19]05, but D.-H. Kahnweiler said that the original <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/photograph" title="Glossary definition for 'Photograph'"><span>photograph</span></a> in his files bears the date 'autumn 1904'. The picture did not enter his possession, however, until 1909. The same model appears in other works of this time, including 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/d/drypoint" title="Glossary definition for 'Drypoint'"><span>drypoint</span></a> (also showing her in profile to the right), which is dated on the plate February 1905 (Geiser, 1933, No.5). In 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/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a> dated 1904 and 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/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> in <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/g/gouache" title="Glossary definition for 'Gouache'"><span>gouache</span></a> dated 1905 (Boudaille et al., Nos.D.XI.26 and XII.4), she is seen feeding a baby, while in the present work one of her breasts is bared, possibly for this purpose. She also seems to appear in several other gouaches 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/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>prints</span></a> of 1905 accompanied not only by the baby but by a man dressed as a harlequin or an acrobat, who is evidently the father, in the setting of a circus tent (e.g. 'The Harlequin's Family' and 'Family of Acrobats with a Monkey', Boudaille et al., Nos.XII.6 and XII.7). </span>
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<p><span>An installation photograph of the Moderne Kunst Kring exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, in October-November 1911 shows this picture hanging on the wall among other works by Picasso and Braque. As Frank Stoop, who was of Dutch origin, is said to have acquired it about 1912, it is possible that he bought it from this exhibition. </span>
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<p><span>Although it has often been known as 'Femme à la Chemise', it appears in the Kahnweiler records as 'Jeune Femme en Chemise.' </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, pp.592-3, reproduced p.592</span>
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