Walter Richard Sickert

Minnie Cunningham at the Old Bedford

1892

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Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool, UK): Walter Sickert

Artist: Walter Richard Sickert 1860–1942
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions: Support: 765 × 638 mm
frame: 915 × 787 × 69 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Purchased 1976
Reference: T02039

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Minnie Cunningham was a popular performer at the Old Bedford Music Hall in Camden Town. Sickert went there regularly and made dozens of sketches capturing the effects of light and movement on the stage and in the auditorium. Here, Sickert paints from the point of view of an audience member. He first exhibited it with the subtitle ‘I’m an old hand at love, though I’m young in years’, a quote from one of Cunningham’s songs. Sickert painted the ordinary life he saw around him.

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