Ennui (large plate) & Ennui (medium plate)
Walter Richard Sickert
- Art Funded
- 2004
- Dimensions
- 1) 45.2 x 32.5 cm; 2) 22.7 x 17.6 cm
- Vendor
- Fine Art Society
The two etchings depict a middle-aged man in a stuffy bourgeois interior, smoking a cigar, seated at a round table and facing to the right.
A woman stands behind him, her elbows leaning on a chest of drawers. The couple exude boredom. In the large plate, Sickert used a wiped film of ink that gives it a painterly quality. In the medium plate, the belt of the woman is missing and the man's face shows more stubble.
Provenance
1) Colnaghi; Ruth and Joseph Bromberg; Fine Art Society; 2) Ethel Sands; Ruth and Joseph Bromberg; Fine Art Society.