La Giuseppina leaning against a Chaise-longue

Walter Richard Sickert (1860 - 1942)

Oil on canvas

1903-1904

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  • About the work
    Location
    Country: Denmark
    City: Copenhagen
    Place: British Embassy
  • About the artist
    Born in Munich, Walter Richard Sickert was a British artist of mixed Dutch and Danish parentage. He abandoned an acting career in 1881 to briefly enter the Slade School of Art in London, before apprenticing under James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) in 1882. During a visit to Paris in 1883, he was introduced to Edgar Degas who inspired Sickert's practice of using figure and location drawings made ‘on the spot’ to produce finished paintings back in the studio. During the 1890s he chiefly painted portraits in London and townscapes in Dieppe. From 1905 he lived in the Camden Town area and in 1911 established the Camden Town group of artists. In 1934 Sickert moved to Broadstairs in Kent with Thérèse Lessore, his third wife, and then again near Bath in 1938. He received few official honours in his lifetime but a major retrospective of his work was held before his death, with posthumous exhibitions at Tate Britain in 1960, and the Courtauld Gallery, London, in 2007–2008.
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    People
    La Giuseppina
    Places
    Italy, Venice
    Subjects
    female portrait, Camden Town Group, woman, 20th century costume, chaise-longue
    Materials & Techniques
    canvas, oil, oil painting
  • Details
    Artist
    Walter Richard Sickert (1860 - 1942)
    Title
    La Giuseppina leaning against a Chaise-longue
    Date
    1903-1904
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    height: 46.00 cm, width: 38.00 cm
    Acquisition
    Purchased from Browse & Darby, March 1986
    Inscription
    br: Sickert
    GAC number
    16511