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Mother and daughter

Maker

(artist)
1860-1942

(etcher)
1860-1942

Title

Mother and daughter

Date of Production

(circa) 1911

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Height: 15.9 cm
Width: 8.6 cm

Accession Number

G.1935.SC.42

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

In this striking composition two women in coats and hats are seated side-by-side on a bed, facing in opposite directions. The psychological mood seems deliberately ambiguous and the viewer is left to interpret the women’s blank expression. The etching was made from a preparatory drawing (dated 1911, private collection) which Sickert followed closely, replacing the hatched pen strokes with similar lines drawn with the etching needle. Sickert also produced a painting of the same composition which he showed at the first exhibition of the Camden Town Group in 1911.

Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Exhibition History

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

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscribed : signed in pencil : recto & lower right : : Sickert

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