Materials:
Oil, Canvas
Physical Object Description:
This elongated canvas shows a section of the New Bedford Palace of Varieties in Camden Town, London, to the right of the stage during a performance. The modernised New Bedford, which reopened in 1899, featured a motorised stage curtain as well as more mainstream entertainment than the bawdy delights once enjoyed by the working classes at the Old Bedford. Sickert depicts a trio of spectators in the middle of the canvas, framed by nude caryatids in glowing sculptural relief, who are socially, financially and physically elevated above the rest of the audience.
Source: tate.org.uk
Technique:
imprimatura
Dimensions:
91.4 x 35.6 cm
Accession Number:
N06174
Credit:
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1953
Ownership history:
Bought by Sir Edward Marsh from the Carfax Gallery, London, November 1916 (14); bequeathed through the Contemporary Art Society to Tate Gallery 1953.