Walter Richard Sickert 1860-1942
A View of the Place Nationale, Dieppe
Oil on canvas
65.5 x 55 cms
25 12/16 x 21 10/16 ins
25 12/16 x 21 10/16 ins
1220
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Sickert's family regularly holidayed in Dieppe, Sickert, himself, went to live there in 1898 and in the early years of the twentieth century he visited frequently to paint. Between 1898...
Sickert's family regularly holidayed in Dieppe, Sickert, himself, went to live there in 1898 and in the early years of the twentieth century he visited frequently to paint. Between 1898 and 1905, apart from extended stays in Venice. Sickert focused on the town and especially the Gothic Cathedral of St Jacques and the Place Nationale with its statue of Admiral Duquesne, which he painted several times between 1899 and 1902. Common to these paintings is the cursory treatment of the sculpture, as an oddly shaped mass, which quietly subverts its pretentions as a grand civic monument, as in a related painting in the Manchester City Art Gallery.
Exhibitions
From Life: Radical Figurative Art From Sickert to Bevan, James Hyman Gallery, London, 10 September - 18 October 2003, (cat. 3)Literature
From Life: Radical Figurative Art From Sickert to Bevan, James Hyman Gallery, London, 2003, (cat. 3), illustrated p.17.Join our mailing list
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