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My awful dad

Maker

(artist)
1860-1942

Title

My awful dad

Date of Production

(circa) 1912

Medium

black chalk on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 38.1 cm
Width: 28.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1935.SC.39

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

This work relates to a large number of drawings and paintings of domestic interiors in which Sickert plays out different psychological tensions between the recurring figures of a man and a woman. For many of these works he employed two middle-aged models called ‘Hubby’ and ‘Marie’, but here the female figure is a young girl. She dominates the foreground while the somewhat threatening figure of Hubby reclines on a chair behind her.

Provenance

purchased from the artist by Percy Moore Turner of the Independent Gallery (London), 12 July 1924 (£14 14s); purchased there by Samuel Courtauld, London (1876-1947), 18 December 1924 (with D.1935.SC.19, 37 and 38); Courtauld Gift 1935

Exhibition History

Nothing in the World but Youth, Turner Contemporary & Margate & England, 17/09/2011-08/01/2012

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

Walter Sickert - "Drawing is the Thing", Whitworth Art Gallery & Manchester & England, 01/10/2004-05/12/2004 ...More

Sickert drawings, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Brisbane Civic Art Gallery; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 05/06/1979-21/10/1979

Sickert, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; Glasgow Art Gallery; Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery, 17/12/1977-21/05/1978

Watercolours, drawings and engravings from the Courtauld Collection (no catalogue), Nottingham University, 1969

Decade 1910-1920, City Art Gallery, Leeds; Reading Art Gallery; Manchester City Art Gallery; Glasgow Art Gallery; Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, 29/05/1965-23/09/1965

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

Sickert, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, 1957

England: her friends and visitors, an exhibition of autograph manuscripts, first editions, paintings and drawings, London, 05/07/1956-18/07/1956

An exhibitions of paintings and drawings by Walter Sickert, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 1953

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, 36, no. 12 on p. 69
illus. no. 12 on p. 69

Salmon, Dimitri, et al., Le Saint Joseph Charpentier de Georges de la Tour: un don au Louvre de Percy Moore Turner, Paris 2017
pp. 404, 432n486

Baron, Wendy, Sickert: paintings and drawings, New Haven and London, 2006
no. 397.1?
dated c. 1912-13 ...More

Walter Sickert - "Drawing is the Thing", Whitworth Art Gallery & Manchester & England, 2004
cat. no. 4.33
illus. p. 106
dated c. 1912

Sickert: paintings, Royal Academy of Arts, London; Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 1992-1993, 1992
under no. 74 on p. 220
illus. p. 158? captioned as Ashmolean but looks identical to ours and Ashmolean doesn't appear to have a version

Camden Town Group, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1980
under no. 88

Sickert drwaings, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Brisbane Civic Art Gallery; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1979
cat. no. 53
illus. pl. 73

Troyen, Aimeé, Walter Sickert as Printmaker, New Haven 1979
under nos 78-80

Baron, Wendy, Sickert, London 1973
under no. 332 and pp. 126, 187

Decade 1910-1920, City Art Gallery, Leeds; Reading Art Gallery; Manchester City Art Gallery; Glasgow Art Gallery; Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, 1965
cat. no. 35

Browse, Lillian, Sickert, London 1960
p. 98, no. 6
dated c. 1913

Cooper, Douglas, The Courtauld Collection, London 1954
no. 178
dated c. 1913

Exhibition of the life work of Walter Richard Sickert., Leeds Art Gallery and Temple Newsam, 1942
cat. no. 110

Sickert, National Gallery, London, August 1941
cat. no. 128

Exhibition of drawings by Walter Sickert, Independent Gallery, London, 1924
cat. no. 42 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower left, brown ink, described: “My awful dad”; lower right, brown ink, signed: “Sickert”; lower left corner, graphite, former acc. no.: “20-35.”; lower right corner, graphite: “7”. Verso: right centre, graphite: “3”.

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