2009.90.21: Seated Woman, Study for "Suspense"

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2009.90.21

People

Walter Sickert, British (Munich, Germany 1860 - 1942 Bathampton, Somerset, England)

Title

Seated Woman, Study for "Suspense"

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1916-1917

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/11260

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite and red pencil on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

37.2 x 27.5 cm (14 5/8 x 10 13/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.l., brown ink: Sickert
• inscription: verso, lower right, blue crayon: 118
• watermark: INDIANA MILL / EXTRA STRONG [repeated]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Patricia Cornwell, gift; to Harvard Art Museum, 2009

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Patricia Cornwell

Copyright

© Estate of Walter Richard Sickert / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Accession Year

2009

Object Number

2009.90.21

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

from sketchbook: perforated approximately 1/2 inch from left side

Publication History

• Walter Sickert: "Drawing is the Thing", exh. cat., The Whitworth Art Gallery (Manchester, 2004), Cat. no. 4.27, repr.
• Wendy Baron, Sickert Paintings and Drawings, Yale University Press (New Haven and London, 2006), no. 459.12

Exhibition History

• Walter Sickert: "Drawing is the Thing", The Whitworth Art Gallery, 10/01/2004 - 12/05/2004; Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, 01/20/2005 - 03/20/2005; Ulster Museum, Belfast, 04/07/2005 - 06/05/2005

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