| Picture for Women | |
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| Artist | Jeff Wall |
| Year | 1979 |
| Type | photograph |
| Medium | cibachrome transparency mounted on a lightbox |
| Dimensions | 204.5 cm × 142.5 cm (80.5 in × 56.1 in) |
| Location | Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris |
Picture for Women is a photographic work by Canadian artist Jeff Wall. Produced in 1979, Picture for Women is a key early work in Wall's career and exemplifies a number of conceptual, material and visual concerns found in his art throughout the 1980s and 1990s. An influential photographic work, Picture for Women is a response to Édouard Manet's Un bar aux Folies Bergère[1] and is a key photograph in the shift from small-scale black and white photographs to large-scale colour that took place in the 1980s in art photography and museum exhibitions. It is the subject of a monographic book written by David Campany and published as part of Afterall Books' One Work series.
- ^ Gallery Guide text for the exhibition Jeff Wall Photographs 1978–2004, Tate Modern, London, October 21, 2005 to January 8, 2006 quoted in David Campany, "'A Theoretical Diagram in an Empty Classroom': Jeff Wall's Picture for Women", Oxford Art Journal 20.1 (2007): 12–14.