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Camden Town Portrait
SICKERT, Walter Richard (1860 - 1942)
Media: oil on canvas
Size: 51.2 x 40.8 cm
Acquired: 1956; Purchase
Accession Number: NMW A 192
In 1911 Sickert was closely involved with the foundation of the short-lived but influential Camden Town Group, whose other members included Harold Gilman, Spencer Gore, and Robert Bevan. This smokey scene with broken, dark colours is one of several interiors with a figure and an iron bedstead painted in 1915-16 at Sickert's studio in 8 Fitzroy Street. Here, the figure is a fully realised portrait. The woman's hat lies on the cupboard behind her head. Given through the Contemporary Art Society for Wales in memory of Captain G.C.H. Crawshay, 1956.
This work is currently on display:
Gallery 15
National Museum Cardiff, level 4
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