The Edwardians: Secrets and Desires | Walter SICKERT | Nude standing by an iron bedstead

DETAIL : John Singer SARGENT, The fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy 1907, The Art Institute of Chicago, American Art Collection

DETAIL : John Singer SARGENT, Almina, daughter of Asher Wertheimer 1908, Tate, London, presented by the widow and family of Asher Wertheimer in accordance with his wishes in 1922

Walter SICKERT | Nude standing by an iron bedstead

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SICKERT, Walter

Germany 1860 – England

England 1868-98, France 1898-1905, with regular visits to Italy, France 1919-22, England from 1942

Nude standing by an iron bedstead 1909

Painting

oil on canvas

50.8 (h) x 34.5 (w) cm

private collection

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In Nude standing by an iron bedstead, as in Mornington Crescent nude, contre-jour, Sickert was interested in depicting the effects of light, as much as in the squalid bedsit.