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Vision, Volumes and Recession

Maker

(artist)
1860-1942

(etcher)
1860-1942

Title

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Height: 20 cm
Width: 11.2 cm

Accession Number

G.1946.SC.6

Mode of Acquisition

Samuel Courtauld, gift, 1946

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

This sheet shows one of two different states of an etching of the art theorist, critic and artist, Roger Fry (1866–1934); an example of the other state is also held in The Courtauld collection. Sickert caricatures Fry as a threatening professor looming out of the shadows of a lecture hall, pointer in hand. The light from the lantern beside him illuminates his disorderly hair and spectacles, contributing to his rather zealous expression. The title on the plate refers to Fry’s strident belief that art should be understood in formal rather than literary or symbolic terms.

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 : titled : recto & lower left : :

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