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Walter Richard Sickert
Camden Town Group
Tate Collection
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Two Women on a Sofa  Le Tose
Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941
actions: postures and motions
adults
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
couch
countries and continents
dell’Acqua, Carolina
domestic
furnishings
Giuseppina
interior - non-specific
interiors
Italy
named individuals
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people
places
prostitution
sex and relationships
sitting
society
studio
Venice, Calle dei Frati
woman
workspaces
<p>In Venice in 1902-3, Sickert experimented with setting figures in natural poses in everyday surroundings. This picture’s subtitle, ‘Le Tose’, is taken from Venetian dialect and means ‘the girls’. Its constrained, planar composition forces attention onto the figures, although their faces are blurred and impossible to read, creating a sense of ambiguity. We can only look to the pose and set of their bodies to read meaning. Each figure looks back at the painter, one is bored, the other more relaxed. The pair are evidently on close terms as they sit near to one another. Sickert’s models were the prostitutes Carolina dell’Acqua and ‘La Giuseppina’.</p><p><em>Gallery label, May 2007</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
16 December 2006 – 18 November 2007
2007-11-18
16 December 2006 – 18 November 2007
2007-11-18
2006-12-16
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2006-12-16
Intimate Interiors
Collection based display
4 March 2009 – 14 June 2009
2009-06-14
4 March 2009 – 14 June 2009
2009-06-14
2009-03-04
Dulwich Picture Gallery (London, UK)
2009-03-04
Sickert in Venice
Loan-out
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
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
Two Women on a Sofa - Le Tose
support: 457 × 533 mm
frame: 652 × 729 × 60 mm
Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941
<p>In Venice in 1902-3, Sickert experimented with setting figures in natural poses in everyday surroundings. This picture’s subtitle, ‘Le Tose’, is taken from Venetian dialect and means ‘the girls’. Its constrained, planar composition forces attention onto the figures, although their faces are blurred and impossible to read, creating a sense of ambiguity. We can only look to the pose and set of their bodies to read meaning. Each figure looks back at the painter, one is bored, the other more relaxed. The pair are  evidently on close terms as they sit near to one another. Sickert’s models were the prostitutes Carolina dell’Acqua and ‘La Giuseppina’.</p>

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