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Poveretta

Maker

(artist)
1860-1942

Title

Poveretta

Date of Production

(circa) 1907

Medium

black and white chalk on purple wove paper (now discoloured burnt orange in the pictorial area), laid down on a paper support

Dimensions

Height: 38 cm
Width: 25.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1935.SC.19

Mode of Acquisition

Samuel Courtauld, gift, 1935

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

During this period the female nude became a major subject in Sickert’s work. Rather than idealizing his models Sickert emphasized the often unflattering ‘reality’ of them. In this rough sketch for a painting entitled 'The Poet and his Muse' (1907, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne), he exaggerates the flabbiness of the woman’s hips and stomach. Sickert often chose coloured paper for many of his drawings; over time these materials have faded to the buff colour of this work, losing their original vibrancy.

Provenance

purchased from the artist by Percy Moore Turner of the Independent Gallery (London), 12 July 1924 (£5 5s); purchased there by Samuel Courtauld, London (1876-1947), 18 December 1924 (with D.1935.SC.37-39); Courtauld Gift 1935

Exhibition History

Special Display - Works by Sickert, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 05/10/2007-20/01/2008

Drawings from the Courtauld, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield; Wolverhampton Art Gallery; Bolton Museum and Art Gallery; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; Portsmouth Museum and Art Gallery, 1977-79

The nude: 19th & 20th century paintings, drawings, sculpture , prints, Morley Gallery, London, 10/04/1975-24/05/1975 ...More

Drawings and Engravings from the Courtauld Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, December 1959-April 1960

Sickert, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, 1957

Sickert, Islington Public Library, 1951

Exhibition of the life work of Walter Richard Sickert., Leeds Art Gallery and Temple Newsam, 28/03/1942-31/05/1942

Sickert, CEMA travelling exhibition, 1941-42

Sickert, National Gallery, London, 1941 (August)

Exhibition of drawings by Walter Sickert, Independent Gallery, London, 1924 ...Less

Literature

Salmon, Dimitri, Percy Moore Turner, Précieux Conseiller de Samuel and Elizabeth Courtauld, Fondation Louis Vuitton 2019
pp. 33, 34n155, 35, 36, no. 9 on p. 68
illus. p. 68

Baron, Wendy, Sickert: paintings and drawings, New Haven and London, 2006
no. 329.2
illus. p. 357?

Drawings from the Courtauld, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield; Wolverhampton Art Gallery; Bolton Museum and Art Gallery; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; Ports, 1977-79
cat. no. 63 ...More

The nude: 19th & 20th century paintings, drawings, sculpture , prints, Morley Gallery, London, 1975
cat. no. 78

Browse, Lillian, Sickert, London 1960
p. 98, no. 5
dated circa 1912

Cooper, Douglas, The Courtauld Collection, London 1954
no. 176
dated 1903; erroneous provenance as not acquired from Leicester Galleries but rather Independent Gallery

Exhibition of the life work of Walter Richard Sickert., Leeds Art Gallery and Temple Newsam, 1942
cat. no. 102
as 'Povaretta', dated 1903

Sickert, National Gallery, London, August 1941
cat. no. 116
as 'Standing Nude'

Exhibition of drawings by Walter Sickert, Independent Gallery, London, 1924
cat. no. 2
as 'Going to the bath' ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower left, brown ink, described: “Poveretta”; lower right, brown ink, signed: “Sickert”.

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