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Hubby seated

Maker

(artist)
1860-1942

Title

Hubby seated

Date of Production

(circa) 1912

Medium

black (synthetic?) chalk, black wash, white bodycoluor on wove paper, now quite browned in the pictorial area, framed in graphite

Dimensions

Height: 34.2 cm
Width: 32.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1982.LB.2

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





Label Text

‘Hubby’ appears in many of Sickert’s compositions at this time, his solid and portly frame dominating the character of these works. Sickert first employed him as an odd-job man in 1911 but he soon became one of the artist’s favoured models and Sickert enjoyed Hubby’s colourful personality. This sketch is related to a painting in which a female figure appears on the iron bed in the background. Here, her cropped outline can be seen on the right-hand side of the sheet.

Provenance

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

Literature

Baron, Wendy, Sickert: paintings and drawings, New Haven and London, 2006
no. 394.3
ill. on p. 395?

A Private Collection of late 19th and 20th century Paintings and Sculpture, Courtauld Institute Gallery, London, 1983
cat. no. 66

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower left, black ink: "Hubby."; lower right, red ink, signed: "Sickert".

Label: Printed, from Roland, Browse and Delbanco (see Acquisition) with handwritten inscription: "Hubby/Walter Richard Sickert".

Collector's mark: none.

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