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Walter Richard Sickert
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Tate Collection
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Pierrot and Woman Embracing
Bequeathed by Lady Henry Cavendish-Bentinck 1940
actions: expressive
adults
architecture
carnival
characters
church
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
column
commedia dell’arte
countries and continents
dress: fantasy/fancy
embracing
emotions, concepts and ideas
fancy dress / role play
features
figure
Italy
leisure and pastimes
literature and fiction
music and entertainment
mystery
people
Pierrot
pierrot
places
religious
society
universal concepts
Venice, Campielo de la Sacrestia
Venice, Scuola di San Martino
<p>This is a preliminary sketch for Venetian Stage Scene, a painting now in a private collection. It combines Sickert's interests in architecture and theatre with a poignant element of fantasy.A central character of Italian and French pantomime, Pierrot was identified by his loose white clothes, white-painted face, tall hat and air of melancholy. The subject was to re-emerge a decade later, in Sickert's wartime meditation Brighton Pierrots, also on display here.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper unique gouache chalk
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
3 May 2013 – 29 March 2015
2015-03-29
3 May 2013 – 29 March 2015
2015-03-29
2013-05-03
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2013-05-03
Gallery 8
Collection based display
Pierrot and Woman Embracing
support: 410 × 311 mm
frame: 550 × 450 mm
Bequeathed by Lady Henry Cavendish-Bentinck 1940
<p>This is a preliminary sketch for Venetian Stage Scene, a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> now in a private collection. It combines Sickert's interests in architecture and theatre with  a poignant element of fantasy.A central character of Italian and French pantomime, Pierrot was identified by his loose white clothes, white-painted face, tall hat and air of melancholy. The subject was to re-emerge a decade later, in Sickert's wartime meditation Brighton Pierrots, also  on display here.</p>
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actions: expressive adults architecture carnival characters church cities, towns, villages (non-UK) column commedia dell’arte countries and continents dress: fantasy/fancy embracing emotions, concepts and ideas fancy dress / role play features figure Italy leisure and pastimes literature and fiction music and entertainment mystery people pierrot Pierrot places religious society universal concepts Venice, Campielo de la Sacrestia Venice, Scuola di San Martino