THE PREVARICATOR

THE PREVARICATOR 1920/21

Walter Richard Sickert (1860 – 1942)

Details

Dimension
210 x 270 MM
Media
INK ON PAPER -SQUARE UP FOR ENLARGEMENT
Accession number
P2561

Summary

At the end of the First World War Sickert returned to Dieppe and the years 1919-22 were to be his most productive as a painter. This drawing is inscribed as being in the possession of Stephenson Southport. W H Stephenson was Sickert’s patron who bought a number of paintings and commissioned a series of articles for his own newspaper, the Southport Visitor. Stephenson was the first owner of the painting for which this drawing is a study.

Glossary

  • Drawing

    The depiction of shapes and forms on a flat surface chiefly by means of lines although colour and shading may also be included. Materials most commonly used are pencil, ink, crayon, charcoal, chalk and pastel, although other materials, including paint, can be used in combination.

  • Painting

    Work of art made with paint on a surface. Often the surface, also called a support, is a tightly stretched piece of canvas, paper or a wooden panel. Painting involves a wide range of techniques and materials, along with the artist's intellectual concerns effecting the content of a work.