Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts and Wine
Online-Only Auction, 27 August - 7 September 2020
Paintings
Lot Estimate
ZAR 4 000 - 6 000
About this Item
David Rowett
South African 1973-
Sickertian Nude IV
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
28 by 35,5cm excluding frame; 46 by 54 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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