
In Tate Modern
In the Studio: Studio Practice
Free entry- Artist
- Walter Richard Sickert 1860–1942
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 1524 x 1124 mm
frame: 1741 x 1340 x 110 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1924
- Reference
- N03846
Display caption
The title means ‘boredom’ in French. Sickert suggests the dislocated relationship between the figures by their lack of communication and their surroundings. Despite their close physical proximity, the man and woman face in opposite directions, staring off into space. The room furnishings reinforce the theme, in particular the bell jar containing stuffed birds. This is a marriage suffocating with boredom. Sickert’s works provide neither moral nor narrative certainty; which he leaves the viewer to supply.
Gallery label, May 2007
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