Oil paint on canvas
Social class and social type
Artworks
Walter Richard Sickert
Camden Town Group
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/walter-richard-sickert-1941" aria-label="More by Walter Richard Sickert" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Walter Richard Sickert</a>
LAméricaine
Bequeathed by Lady Henry Cavendish-Bentinck 1940
actions: postures and motions
adults
clothing and personal items
contemplation
domestic
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
hat, boater
individuals: female
interior - non-specific
interiors
looking down
named individuals
objects
people
portraits
trader
trading and commercial
Waters, Sally
woman
work and occupations
<p>Despite its French title this is a painting of a London 'costergirl', a woman who worked selling food from a barrow. Sickert was exhibiting paintings both in France and in London, and the title was probably given after it had been shown with his dealer Bernheim Jeune in Paris. He wrote 'Here I am deep in two divine costergirls - one with sunlight on her indoors. You know the trompe l'oeil hat all the coster girls wear here with a crown fitting the head inside and expanded outside to immense proportions. It's called an 'American sailor'(hat)'.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
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
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
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
L’Américaine
support: 508 × 406 mm
frame: 748 × 649 × 55 mm
Bequeathed by Lady Henry Cavendish-Bentinck 1940
<p>Despite its French title this is 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> of a  London 'costergirl', a woman who worked selling  food from a barrow. Sickert was exhibiting  paintings both in France and in London, and the  title was probably given after it had been shown  with his dealer Bernheim Jeune in Paris. He wrote  'Here I am deep in two divine costergirls - one  with sunlight on her indoors. You know the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/i/illusionism" title="Glossary definition for 'Illusionism'"><span>trompe  l'oeil</span></a> hat all the coster girls wear here with a  crown fitting the head inside and expanded outside  to immense <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/proportion" title="Glossary definition for 'Proportion'"><span>proportions</span></a>. It's called an 'American  sailor'(hat)'.</p>
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actions: postures and motions adults clothing and personal items contemplation domestic emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas hat, boater individuals: female interior - non-specific interiors looking down named individuals objects people portraits trader trading and commercial Waters, Sally woman work and occupations