Ennui (large plate) & Ennui (medium plate)

Walter Richard Sickert (1860 - 1942)

Whitworth Art Gallery

1) circa 1914-1915; 2) 1915

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.

• Medium: 1) etching & engraving on paper; 2) etching on paper
• Dimensions: 1) 45.2 x 32.5cm; 2) 22.7 x 17.6cm
• Art Fund Grant: £4625 ( Total: £26,500)
• ArtFunded in: 2004
• Vendor: Fine Art Society

Provenance

1) Colnaghi; Ruth and Joseph Bromberg; Fine Art Society; 2) Ethel Sands; Ruth and Joseph Bromberg; Fine Art Society.

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