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STUDY FOR RACHEL LE PETIT

1907 Walter Richard Sickert (1860 − 1942)

The sitter for this drawing was Miss Siderman (d. 1963) and described by the artist as a ‘little Jewish girl of 13 or so with red-hair’. Some paintings of her have been known as The Frame-Maker’s Daughter which perhaps explains how she came to model for Sickert. The work is clearly inscribed at the bottom left le petit Jesus

Accession Number P2643
Dimensions 25.4 X 37 CM
Media CHARCOAL, HEIGHTENED WITH WHITE, ON PAPER

Glossary (2)

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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.
Slip
A mixture of clay and water mixed together to the consistency of single cream. Used with metal oxides to produce different colours for decoration and to dip pots for an overall coating. Slip can also be trailed, sponged, stencilled, poured and painted onto the pot; and for binding clay surfaces and casting.

Work Theme

Portraiture

Past exhibitions

CONTEMPORARY BRITISH PRINTS AND DRAWINGS FROM THE WAKEFIELD COLLECTION

1950
- Fiji, Suva, Fiji Arts Club
1949
- New Zealand, Hamilton, Waikato Museum Of Art & History
- New Zealand, Rotorua, Society Of Arts
1948
- New Zealand, Auckland, Aukland City Art Gallery
- New Zealand, Wellington, National Art Gallery
- New Zealand, Napier, Napier
- New Zealand, Wanganni
- Australia, Brisbane, Queensland Art Gallery
- Australia, Art Gallery Of New South Wales
1947
- Australia, Hobart, Hobart
- Australia, Melbourne, Melbourne Royal Exhibition Building
- Australia, Adelaide, Art Gallery Of South Australia
- Australia, Perth, Art Gallery Of Western Australia
- UK, London, Victoria And Albert Museum

MODERN PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS BY BRITISH ARTISTS

1943
- UK, London, Ognisko Polskie (Polish Hearth) Belgrave Square
- UK, London, Belgian Institute, Belgrave Square
- UK, London, Czechoslovak Institute, Grosvenor Place