Oil paint on canvas
Modernity and metropolis
Artworks
Walter Richard Sickert
Camden Town Group
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Collection
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Venice la Salute
Bequeathed by Lady Henry Cavendish-Bentinck 1940
adults
architecture
boat, gondola
canal
church
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
features
figure
industrial
Italy
people
periods and styles
places
portico
religious
Renaissance
society
stair / step
townscapes / man-made features
transport: water
Venice, Santa Maria della Salute
waterfront
<p>Sickert visited Venice several times between 1895 and 1904. He was becoming interested in close-up views and in capturing the solid masses and the rhythm of architecture. This picture confounds our expectations by showing only a portion of the great domed church of Santa Maria della Salute, giving equal space to the more severe lines of the building to the left. He described his working method in Venice as striving 'to see the thing all at once. To work open and loose, freely, with a full brush and full colour. And to understand that when, with that full colour, the drawing has been got, the picture is done.'</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
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
Venice, la Salute
support: 451 × 692 mm
frame: 718 × 950 × 60 mm
Bequeathed by Lady Henry Cavendish-Bentinck 1940
<p>Sickert visited Venice several times between  1895 and 1904. He was becoming interested  in close-up views and in capturing the solid masses and the rhythm of architecture. This  picture confounds our expectations by showing only a portion of the great domed church of  Santa Maria della Salute, giving equal space  to the more severe lines of the building to the  left. He described his working method in Venice  as striving 'to see the thing all at once. To work open and loose, freely, with a full brush and full colour. And to understand that when, with that  full colour, 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/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a> has been got, the picture  is done.' </p>
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adults architecture boat, gondola canal church cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents features figure industrial Italy people periods and styles places portico religious Renaissance society stair / step townscapes / man-made features transport: water Venice, Santa Maria della Salute waterfront