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Walter Richard Sickert
Camden Town Group
Tate Britain
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Woman Washing her Hair
Bequeathed by Lady Henry Cavendish-Bentinck 1940
actions: postures and motions
actions: processes and functions
adults
architecture
bathroom
bedroom
bending forward
Blanche
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
domestic
door
features
female
France
furnishings
hotel
interiors
jug
mantelpiece
named individuals
nudes
objects
Paris, Hôtel du Quai Voltaire
people
places
residential
rug
vessels and containers
wallpaper
washing / drying
woman
<p>Sickert was committed to painting everyday life, and here he shows the woman in circumstances in which she might naturally be naked. This sets her apart from the artistic tradition of female nudes, which were conventionally shown inactive and with little context.Sickert learnt much from the French artist Edgar Degas, including such ‘through the key hole’ views. In this way the woman is shown as if we have glimpsed her without her knowing we are there.This is one of a series of nudes Sickert painted in his studio in Paris in autumn 1906.</p><p><em>Gallery label, May 2007</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
6 October 2005 – 14 May 2006
2006-05-14
6 October 2005 – 15 January 2006
2006-01-15
2005-10-06
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
18 February 2006 – 14 May 2006
2006-05-14
2006-02-18
Phillips Collection (Washington, USA)
2005-10-06
Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec: London and Paris 1870-1910
Exhibition
15 September 2007 – 31 March 2009
2009-03-31
15 September 2007 – 31 March 2009
2009-03-31
2007-09-15
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2007-09-15
Bathers
Collection based display
13 February 2008 – 4 May 2008
2008-05-04
13 February 2008 – 4 May 2008
2008-05-04
2008-02-13
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2008-02-13
Camden Town Group
Exhibition
15 May 2010 – 31 July 2010
2010-07-31
15 May 2010 – 31 July 2010
2010-07-31
2010-05-15
The Lightbox (Woking, UK)
http://www.thelightbox.org/
2010-05-15
Sickert at the Lightbox
Loan-out
21 September 2015 – 19 June 2016
2016-06-19
21 September 2015 – 17 January 2016
2016-01-17
2015-09-21
Musée d’Orsay (Paris, France)
19 February 2016 – 19 June 2016
2016-06-19
2016-02-19
Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/
2015-09-21
Splendour and Misery. Images of prostitution in France 1850-1910
Loan-out
18 September 2021 – 27 February 2022
2022-02-27
18 September 2021 – 27 February 2022
2022-02-27
2021-09-18
Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk
2021-09-18
Walter Sickert
Loan-out
28 April 2022 – 29 January 2023
2023-01-29
28 April 2022 – 18 September 2022
2022-09-18
2022-04-28
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2022-04-28
Walter Sickert
Exhibition
14 October 2022 – 29 January 2023
2023-01-29
14 October 2022 – 29 January 2023
2023-01-29
2022-10-14
Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris (Paris, France)
2022-10-14
Walter Sickert
Loan-out
31 October 2022
8 February 2021
2021-02-08
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2022-10-31
Gallery 5A
Collection based display
Woman Washing her Hair
support: 457 × 381 mm
frame: 622 × 548 × 75 mm
Bequeathed by Lady Henry Cavendish-Bentinck 1940
<p>Sickert was committed to painting everyday life, and here he shows the woman in circumstances in which she might naturally be naked. This sets her apart from the artistic tradition of female nudes, which were conventionally shown inactive and with little context.Sickert learnt much from the French artist Edgar Degas, including such ‘through the key hole’ views. In this way the woman is shown as if we have glimpsed her without her knowing we are there.This is one of a series of nudes Sickert painted in his studio in Paris in autumn 1906.</p>

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