
Not on display
- Artist
- Walter Richard Sickert 1860–1942
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 765 x 638 mm
frame: 915 x 787 x 69 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1976
- Reference
- T02039
Display caption
In the 1880s popular music halls sprang up in London and Paris and impressionist artists such as Edgar Degas and Walter Sickert began to paint the audiences and acts. Minnie Cunningham was a successful performer whom Sickert admired. He first exhibited this picture with the subtitle ‘I’m an old hand at love, though I’m young in years’, a quotation from one of her songs. Sickert gives us the point of view of an audience member and catches the strange effect of theatrical lighting.
Gallery label, February 2016
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