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The New Bedford (1914-15)

Walter Richard Sickert

oil on canvas

Tate, London, Liverpool and St Ives

Details

Classification:

Painting

Materials:

Oil, Canvas

Physical Object Description:

This elongated canvas shows a section of the New Bedford Palace of Varieties in Camden Town, London, to the right of the stage during a performance. The modernised New Bedford, which reopened in 1899, featured a motorised stage curtain as well as more mainstream entertainment than the bawdy delights once enjoyed by the working classes at the Old Bedford. Sickert depicts a trio of spectators in the middle of the canvas, framed by nude caryatids in glowing sculptural relief, who are socially, financially and physically elevated above the rest of the audience.
Source: tate.org.uk

Technique:

imprimatura

Dimensions:

91.4 x 35.6 cm

Accession Number:

N06174

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1953

Scheme:

Sir Edward Marsh Bequest (1953)

Ownership history:

Bought by Sir Edward Marsh from the Carfax Gallery, London, November 1916 (14); bequeathed through the Contemporary Art Society to Tate Gallery 1953.

Relationship:

Tate, London, Liverpool and St Ives Edward 'Eddie' Howard Marsh

Subject:

Architecture, Theatres

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