University of Reading | Archive and Museum Database

Object number
UAC/10520
Title
The Little Bed,
Exhibition
Pencil Paint, Print: 10 Artworks for 10 Years, Walter Sickert, Rubens to Sickert: The Study of Drawing, Sickert in Dieppe, Sickert Exhibition of Drawings, Drawings by Walter Sickert
Creator
Walter Richard Sickert (Artist)
Description
A female nude lying on a bed, with her back towards the viewer, face turned away. At her head is a second figure, cut off at the hips and breasts. Metal frame of the bedhead in the foreground. This is among Sickert's earliest studies of the nude.
Physical description
pencil and chalk on laid paper
Label Text
<em>The Little Bed </em>is one of the earliest of Sickert's nude studies to depict a women in bed and anticipates the Camden Town nudes he painted a few years later. Inscribed 'Neuville 1902', it was drawn in Dieppe. It is likely that the model was Augustine Villain, who Sickert lived with at the time.
Production place
France
Production date
1902 - 1902
School/style
British
Object name
Drawing
Material
Paper, Stone, chalk, Graphite
Technique
Drawing
Dimensions
- Height 23.7 cm
- Width 31.5 cm
Credit line
The University of Reading Art Collection