Not on display
- Artist
- Walter Richard Sickert 1860–1942
- Medium
- Gouache and chalk on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 410 x 311 mm
frame: 550 x 450 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Bequeathed by Lady Henry Cavendish-Bentinck 1940
- Reference
- N05095
Display caption
This is a preliminary sketch for Venetian Stage Scene, a painting now in a private collection. It combines Sickert's interests in architecture and theatre with a poignant element of fantasy.A central character of Italian and French pantomime, Pierrot was identified by his loose white clothes, white-painted face, tall hat and air of melancholy. The subject was to re-emerge a decade later, in Sickert's wartime meditation Brighton Pierrots, also on display here.
Gallery label, August 2004
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'Poor abraded butterflies of the stage': Sickert and the Brighton Pierrots
Sickert's interest in popular entertainment extended beyond the London music-hall and his 1915 painting Brighton Pierrots depicts a troupe ...
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