2009.90.32: Woman Seated on a Bed

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2009.90.32

People

Walter Sickert, British (Munich, Germany 1860 - 1942 Bathampton, Somerset, England)

Title

Woman Seated on a Bed

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1907

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/55310

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

45.7 × 38.1 cm (18 × 15 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: Signed Sickert upper right
• label: On verso: Arthur Tooth & Sons LTD/ Old Master & Modern Paintings/ 31 Burton Street London W1 Mayfair 2920

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd, London]; the 2nd Viscount Weir, his sale [Chrisite's, March 13, 1981, lot 33]. [Sotheby's, May 23, 1984, lot 78]. [Christie's, June 8, 1990, lot 209]. The Fine Art Society, London. Private Collection. The Fine Art Society, London. Patricia Cornwell, gift; to Harvard Art Museum, 2009.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Patricia Cornwell

Copyright

© Estate of Walter Richard Sickert / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Accession Year

2009

Object Number

2009.90.32

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Walter Sickert: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints, exh. cat., The Fine Art Society (London, 2000), no. 10, repr.
• Wendy Baron, Sickert Paintings and Drawings, Yale University Press (New Haven and London, 2006)

Exhibition History

• Walter Sickert: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints, The Fine Art Society, London, 05/08/2000 - 06/15/2000
• 32Q: 2700 Impressionism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/13/2016 - 07/14/2017

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