Oil paint on canvas
Social class and social type
Artworks
Walter Richard Sickert
Camden Town Group
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Collection
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Off to Pub
Presented by Howard Bliss 1943
actions: expressive
adults
alcoholism
bedroom
clothing and personal items
despair
domestic
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
family
hat
Hayes, Marie
health and welfare
Hubby
husband
interiors
leaving
man
named individuals
objects
people
society
trader
trading and commercial
wife
woman
work and occupations
<p>Through the poses of the figures and title, Sickert evokes the aftermath of a domestic row. The woman’s clasped hands and steady gaze suggest hurt emotions and resignation, while her husband takes refuge by leaving for the pub.</p><p>The male model is ‘Hubby’, whose real name is unknown. A reformed alcoholic, he joined Sickert in 1911 to help around the studio and modelled for a number of pictures. When Hubby turned to drink again in 1914, Sickert had to dismiss him. He wrote ‘It is like death, only worse, and I will miss his kind silly old face and his sympathetic pomposity’.</p><p><em>Gallery label, February 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
14 April 2003 – 4 May 2004
2004-05-04
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2003-04-14
Private Lives
Collection based display
17 May 2004 – 9 December 2007
2007-12-09
17 May 2004 – 9 December 2007
2007-12-09
2004-05-17
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2004-05-17
Modern Figures
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
19 May 2012 – 13 January 2013
2013-01-13
19 May 2012 – 23 September 2012
2012-09-23
2012-05-19
Tate St Ives (St Ives, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/stives/
6 October 2012 – 13 January 2013
2013-01-13
2012-10-06
Turner Contemporary (Margate, UK)
2012-05-19
Alex Katz Collection Display
Collection based display
1 October 2012 – 31 January 2013
2013-01-31
14 January 2013 – 20 January 2013
2013-01-20
2013-01-14
Turner Contemporary (Margate, UK)
2012-10-01
Alex Katz: Give me tomorrow
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
Off to the Pub
support: 508 × 406 mm
frame: 695 × 595 × 45 mm
Presented by Howard Bliss 1943
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<span class="text0">Through the poses of the figures and title, </span><span class="text13">Sickert evokes the aftermath of a domestic</span><span class="text0"> </span><span class="text14">row. The woman’s clasped hands      and </span><span class="text13">steady gaze suggest hurt emotions and </span><span class="text14">resignation, while her husband takes refuge by leaving for      the pub.</span><span class="text0">
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<span class="text0">The male model is ‘Hubby’, whose real name      is unknown. A reformed alcoholic, he joined Sickert in 1911 to help around      the studio and modelled for a number </span><span class="text13">of      pictures. When Hubby turned to drink</span><span class="text0"> again in      1914, Sickert had to dismiss him. </span><span class="text13">He wrote      ‘It is like death, only worse, and </span><span class="text0">I will      miss his kind silly old face and his sympathetic pomposity’.  </span>
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