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Nude standing at wash basin - Sally

Maker

(artist)
1860-1942

Title

Nude standing at wash basin - Sally

Date of Production

(circa) 1911

Medium

pen and brown ink (fugitive and haloed) on laid paper, now discoloured dark brown

Dimensions

Height: 46.4 cm
Width: 30 cm

Accession Number

D.1982.LB.1

Mode of Acquisition

Lillian Browse, gift, 1982

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

washbowls

Label Text

Sickert began to draw the model known as ‘Sally’ nude from 1909. Here she is depicted in front of a semi-circular washstand with distinctive barley-twist legs. The mixture of cross-hatching, thick diagonal pen strokes and more fluid lines is typical of a later, more experimental phase in Sickert’s draughtsmanship. The works of this period project the artist’s conviction that different methods of mark making, including etching and drawing, were closely related, as demonstrated in this linear drawing which resembles an etching.

Provenance

Zwemmer Gallery (London); purchased there by Lillian Browse, London (1906-2005), c. 1935 (£6); Lillian Browse Gift 1982

Exhibition History

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

A Private Collection of late 19th and 20th century Paintings and
Sculpture, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 12/02/1983-10/04/1983

Sickert, Edinburgh, 1953

Literature

Baron, Wendy, Sickert: paintings and drawings, New Haven and London, 2006
no. 378.1
mistakenly located in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

A Private Collection of late 19th and 20th century Paintings and Sculpture, Courtauld Institute Gallery, London, 1983
cat. no. 65

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, right centre edge: "F.J. Head & Co.".

Inscription: Recto: lower right, red ink, signed: "Sickert".

Collector's mark: none.

Label: Printed. "247"; "No 240".

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