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Online-Only Auction, 27 August - 7 September 2020

Paintings
  • David Rowett; Sickertian Nude II
  • David Rowett; Sickertian Nude II
  • David Rowett; Sickertian Nude II
  • David Rowett; Sickertian Nude II
  • David Rowett; Sickertian Nude II
  • David Rowett; Sickertian Nude II


Lot Estimate
ZAR 4 000 - 6 000

About this Item

David Rowett
South African 1973-
Sickertian Nude II

signed; inscribed with the artist's name, the title and the medium on an Everard Read label adhered to the reverse

oil on canvas laid down on board
36 by 28cm excluding frame; 54 by 47 by 5cm including frame

Notes

This work makes reference to the work of German-born British painter Walter Sickert (1860-1942), specifically his series known as ‘The Camden Town Nudes’, painted in north London between 1905 and 1913. These remarkable works ‘reinvented’ the nude and were considered radical at the time: “The uncompromising realism of Sickert’s nudes, set on iron bedsteads in the murky interiors of cheap lodging houses, challenged artistic conventions and divided critical opinion.”1

1. https://courtauld.ac.uk/gallery/what-on/exhibitions-displays/archive/walter-sickert-the-camden-town-nudes


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