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Exhibition Review
Walter Sickert
08/2022 | 1433 | 164
Pages: 288-292
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Reviewer:
James, Merlin (James, Merlin; James, Merlin Ingli; Ingli James, Merlin; J., M.)
Subjects
artists:
Sickert, Walter
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Tate Britain, London, Great Britain
subjects:
British art / Figurative art / Portraits / Self-portraits / Theatres / Music / Cities / Architecture
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Walter Sickert Tate Britain, London 28th April–18th September | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Bonnet et claque. Ada Lundberg at the Marylebone Music Hall, by Walter Sickert. c.1887. Oil on canvas, 41.9 by 59.7 cm. (Private collection; exh. Tate Britain, London).
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2. Self-portrait, by Walter Sickert. c.1896. Oil on canvas, 45.7 by 35.6 cm. (Leeds Museums and Galleries; exh. Tate Britain, London; Bridgeman Images).
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3. The Prussians in Belgium, by Walter Sickert. c.1912. Oil on canvas, 50.5 by 40.5 cm. (Private collection; exh. Tate Britain, London).
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4. Self-portrait in grisaille, by Walter Sickert. 1935. Oil on canvas, 68.5 by 25.4 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London; exh. Tate Britain, London).
Exhibition Review
Painting and the stage. Rovereto
05/2010 | 1286 | 152
Pages: 347-349
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Reviewer:
Rylands, Philip (Rylands, Philip)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Musée Cantini, Marseille, France / Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada / Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy
places:
Rovereto / Italy / Toronto / Canada / Marseille / France
print:
Italian art
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Paintings / Theatres / Composition (artistic arrangement) / History paintings
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Dalla scena al dipinto. La magia del teatro nella pittura dell’Ottocento | institution: MART
Illustrations
Attributed works:
60. Lear banishing Cordelia, by Johann Heinrich Fuseli. 1784–90. Canvas, 267.3 by 364.5 cm. (Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; exh. MART, Rovereto).
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61. St John Chrysostom and the Empress Eudoxia, by Jean-Paul Laurens. 1893. Canvas, 131 by 163.5 cm. (Musée des Augustins, Toulouse; exh. MART, Rovereto).
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62. The princes in the Tower, by Paul Delaroche. After 1831. Canvas, 88.9 by 106.7 cm. (Stair Sainty Gallery, London; exh. MART, Rovereto).
Short Notice
Walter Sickert at Gatti’s: new technical evidence
04/2006 | 1237 | 148
Pages: 264-269
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Author:
Beresford, Richard (Beresford, Richard)
Subjects
artists:
Sickert, Walter
dates:
1900-1909
museums and institutions:
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
museums and institutions:
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, United States
print:
Sickert, Walter
subjects:
British painting / Collections, Public / Conservation / Scientific analysis / Technical analysis / Lost works / Theatres / Popular Theatre / Dating / Radiographs
subjects:
Ultraviolet photographs
Illustrations
Attributed works:
23. 'Kate O'Grady, You're a lady', by Walter Sickert. Drawing repr. in The Idler (March 1895).
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24. Gatti's Hungerford Palace of Varieties: second turn of Miss Katie Lawrence, by Walter Sickert. c.1903. 83 by 97 cm. (Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney).
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25. X-radiograph of Fig. 24, rotated 90 degrees clockwise.
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26. St Jacques, façade, by Walter Sickert. c.1899-1900. 55.9 by 48.2 cm. (Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester).
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27. St Jacques, Dieppe, by Walter Sickert. Pencil, pen and ink, 23 by 18 cm. (Christie's, London, 14th May 1992).
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28. Gatti's Hungerford Palace of Varieties: second turn of Miss Katie Lawrence, by Walter Sickert. c.1903. 38 by 45.8 cm. (Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven).
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29. Detail of lower-left edge of 24, showing black grid lines.
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31. Detail of spot-lit curtain in Fig. 24, showing underpainting colours of violet and green.
Attributed works:
32. Photograph of Fig. 24, under ultraviolet light.
Short Notice
Some newly discovered sketches by Walter Sickert of Gatti's Hungerford Palace of Varieties
04/2006 | 1237 | 148
Pages: 269-272
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Author:
Robins, Anna Gruetzner (Robins, Anna Gruetzner; Gruetzner Robins, Anna; Gruetzner, Anna)
Subjects
artists:
Sickert, Walter
dates:
1880-1889
museums and institutions:
Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton, Great Britain / City Art Gallery, Leeds, Great Britain / Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, Great Britain / Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Great Britain
print:
Sickert, Walter
subjects:
Drawings / Sketches / Albums / Collections, Public / Theatres / Popular Theatre / Donations / Preliminary drawings / British
Illustrations
Attributed works:
33. Thirteen music-hall studies made at Gatti's, London, by Walter Sickert. 1887. Pencil on paper (with ink inscriptions) on album paper mount, 34.5 by 29.2 cm. (overall). (Brighton Museum and Art Gallery).
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34. Detail (top left) of a music-hall study made at Gatti's, London, by Walter Sickert. 1887. Pencil on paper (with ink inscriptions) on album paper mount, 34.5 by 29.2 cm. (overall). (Brighton Museum and Art Gallery). Inscribed by Sickert 'Gattis. May 20.87'.
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35. Detail of a music-hall study made at Gatti's, London, by Walter Sickert. 1887. Pencil on paper (with ink inscriptions) on album paper mount, 34.5 by 29.2 cm. (overall). (Brighton Museum and Art Gallery). Showing study of Katie Lawrence, Gatti's (23rd May 1887), and inscribed by Sickert 'not wearing the same dress'.
Attributed works:
37. Fifteen music-hall studies made at Gatti’s, London, by Walter Sickert. 1888. Pencil on paper on album paper mount, 34.5 by 29.2 cm. (overall). (Brighton Museum and Art Gallery).
Attributed works:
38. Eight studies of the audience, Gatti’s, London, by Walter Sickert. 1888. Pencil on paper on album paper mount, 34.5 by 29.2 cm. (overall). (Brighton Museum and Art Gallery).
Western art unattributed:
36. Katie Lawrence. Sheet-music cover, Francis Day & Hunter, London, c.1890. (By permission of the British Library, London; H.3981.jj (16)).
Short Notice
Newly discovered photographic sources for Walter Sickert’s theatre paintings of the 1930s
04/2006 | 1237 | 148
Pages: 272-276
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Author:
Daniels, Rebecca (Daniels, Rebecca)
Subjects
artists:
Sickert, Walter
dates:
1930-1939
places:
London
print:
Sickert, Walter
subjects:
British painting / Visual sources / Photographs / Theatre (discipline) / Theatre design / Theatres / Actors and actresses
Illustrations
Attributed works:
39. Jessica Tandy and John Gielgud in Hamlet, by Walter Richard Sickert. 1935. Size and present whereabouts unknown.
Attributed works:
40. Jessica Tandy and John Gielgud in Hamlet, performed at the New Theatre, London. 1934. Photograph by Bertram Park. 12.8 by 10 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
41. The Taming of the Shrew, by Walter Richard Sickert. 1937. 99 by 61 cm. (Bradford Museums, Galleries and Heritage, Cartwright Hall, Bradford).
Attributed works:
43. The Taming of the Shrew, by Walter Richard Sickert. c.1937. 51 by 78 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
45. Marie Tempest, by Walter Richard Sickert. 1935. Size and present whereabouts unknown.
Western art unattributed:
42. Edith Evans and Leslie Banks in The Taming of the Shrew, performed at the New Theatre, London, 1937. Photograph by Houston Rogers. 16.5 by 10 cm. (Private collection).
Western art unattributed:
44. The Taming of the Shrew, performed at the New Theatre, London. 1937. Photograph from The Times (24th March 1937), p.14.
Western art unattributed:
46. Marie Tempest. Photograph from the Daily Telegraph (29th May 1935), p.15.
Exhibition Review
Le Théåtre de L'Oeuvre. Paris
07/2005 | 1228 | 147
Pages: 506-507
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Reviewer:
Stonard, John-Paul (Stonard, John-Paul)
Subjects
dates:
2000-2009
museums and institutions:
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
places:
Paris / France
print:
Theatre (discipline)
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Théâtre de l'Oeuvre, Paris, France / Theatres
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Le Théåtre de L'Oeuvre 1893-1900. Naissance du théåtre moderne | institution: Musée d'Orsay
Illustrations
Attributed works:
61. Programme for Maurice Beauborg's La vie muette, by Edouard Vuillard. 1894. Lithograph, 32.1 by 23.7 cm. (Bibliotéque natioanle de France, Paris; exh. Musée d'Orsay, Paris).
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63. La porte entebåillée, by Edouard Vuillard. 1891. Cardboard, 27.5 by 22.5 cm. (Musée-Fondation Angladon-Dubrujeaud, Avignon; exh. Musée d'Orsay, Paris).
Western art unattributed:
62. Three marionettes from 'Ubu Roi': Ubu, Bougrelas and the Tsar. Anonymous. Photograph, 15.5 by 22.2 cm. (Bibliotéque littéraire Jacques Doucet, Paris; exh. Musée d'Orsay, Paris).
Book Review
The Theatres of Inigo Jones and John Webb
07/1985 | 988 | 127
Pages: 463
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Reviewer:
Summerson, John (Summerson, John; Summerson, John Newenham; Summerson, J. N.)
Subjects
artists:
Jones, Inigo
artists:
Webb, John, architect, 1611-1672
dates:
1600-1699
places:
England
subjects:
British architecture / Theatres
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Theatres of Inigo Jones and John Webb | author: Orrell, John
Short Notice
Nicolò dell'Abate's 'Aristeus and Eurydice'
02/1970 | 803 | 112
Pages: 106-108
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Author:
Langmuir, Erika (Langmuir, Erika; Langmuir, Erika H.)
Subjects
artists:
Dell'Abate, Niccolò
dates:
1450-1599
museums and institutions:
National Gallery, London, Great Britain
places:
Italy / Modena
sources:
Ovid
sources:
Virgil
sources:
Poliziano, Agnolo
subjects:
Italian painting
subjects:
Iconography / Classical mythology / Orpheus / Theatres
Illustrations
Attributed works:
52. Aristeus and Eurydice, by Nicolò dell'Abate. Canvas. (National Gallery, London.)
Attributed works:
53. Aristeus and Eurydice, with Orpheus, by Baldassare Carrari the Younger. Panel. (Formerly Spiridon Collection. Paris.)
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54. Detail from the Painting Illustrated in Fig. 52. [Aristeus and Eurydice, by Nicolò dell'Abate. Canvas. (National Gallery, London.)]
Article
Three French Architectural Drawings
06/1961 | 699 | 103
Pages: 264-269
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Author:
Holland, Ralph (Holland, Ralph; Holland, R.)
Subjects
artists:
Le Vau, Louis
artists:
D'Orbay, François, II, 1634-1697
artists:
Hardouin-Mansart, Jules
artists:
Soufflot, Jacques Germain
buildings:
Château de Versailles, Versailles, France
dates:
1650-1749
places:
France / Lyon / Paris / Versailles
subjects:
French architecture / Drawings / Architectural drawings
subjects:
Italian architecture / Influence
subjects:
Palaces / Theatres
Illustrations
Attributed works:
87. Design for the Château of Versailles, by François d'Orbay. Pen and Wash, 35.7 by 58 cm. (Collection Mr Ralph Holland.)
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88. Façade of the Palazzo Senatorio, Rome, by Michelangelo and Others. From an Engraving by Falda.
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89. Château de Versailles, by Israel Silvestre. Detail from Engraving of 1674.
Attributed works:
90. Château de Versailles, by Israel Silvestre. Detail from Engraving of 1682.
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91. Project for the Modification of La Perspective at Marly, by Jules Hardouin Mansart. Pen and Wash, 24.5 by 42 cm. (Collection Mr Ralph Holland.)
Attributed works:
92. Design for the Modification of La Perspective at Marly, by Jules Hardouin Mansart. Pen and Wash. (Cabinet des Estampes, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.)
Attributed works:
93. Project for the façade of the Theatre at Lyons, by J. G. Soufflot. Pen and Wash, 27.7 by 46.4 cm. (Collection Mr Ralph Holland.)
Attributed works:
D. Courtyard of Palace of Conte Giuseppe da Porto, by Palladio. From I Quattro Libri dell' Architettura, Venice, 1570.
Book Review
Roman Theatre-Temples
02/1960 | 683 | 102
Pages: 82-83
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Reviewer:
Haynes, D. E. L. (Haynes, D. E. L.; Haynes, Denys Eyre Lankester)
Subjects
places:
Rome (historical region)
subjects:
Roman (ancient) architecture / Temples / Theatres
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Roman Theatre-Temples | author: Hanson, John Arthur
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