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Walter Sickert, Mother and Daughter: Lou Lou I Love You, 1911

Walter Sickert

Mother and Daughter: Lou Lou I Love You, 1911
Oil on canvas
28.5 x 17.8 cm
11 1/4 x 7 1/8 in
 
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Costers were a common sight in fin de siècle London, vending fruit and vegetables from the kerbside. In William Nicholson’s series London Types, printed in 1898, a work titled Coster shows a long-faced, magenta-coated girl with a plumed hat. Like certain other artists of his generation, Nicholson and William Rothenstein among them, Sickert’s interest in costers was strictly limited to the female kind. After leaving behind Dieppe in 1905 and establishing himself in Camden Town, he painted them on several occasions – in this work and others such as L’Américaine (1908, Tate Collection) [Baron 349]. Though on another day these working girls might have posed in the nude for Sickert, their identity as costers derived from the workaday ‘Sunday best’ clothes and flamboyant headwear pictured here. Writing to Nan Hudson in early 1908, Sickert described a typical coster girl’s hat. ‘You know the trompe l’oeil hat all the coster girls wear here with a crown fitting the head inside and expanded outside to immense proportions. It is called an “American sailor” (hat).’ Made of straw and coated in tar, the ‘American sailor’ gained currency after the United States won its independence in the eighteenth century. Both women depicted in Mother and Daughter are wearing them.
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Provenance

Mrs Philippa St John-Cooper, London

At Christie's, London, 28 July 1955, lot 282 (listed as 'Two Women seated on Bed')
E. Carew-Shaw
Private Collection
At Christie's, London, 8 June 2007, lot 43
Private Collection

Exhibitions

1911, London, Carfax Gallery, The First Exhibition of the Camden Town Group, June 1911, cat. no. 12 (listed as 'Mother and Daughter')
1913, Brighton, Public Art Galleries, The Work of English Post-Impressionist and Cubist Painters arranged by the Camden Town Group, 16 Dec. 1913 - 14 Jan. 1914, cat. no. 59 (listed as 'Mother and Daughter')
1916, London, Carfax Gallery, Paintings by Walter Sickert, Nov. 1916, cat. no. 3 (listed as 'Mother and Daughter')
1960, London, Tate Gallery; Southampton, Southampton Art Gallery; and Bradford, Bradford City Art Gallery, Sickert: Paintings and Drawings, 18 May - 19 June; 2 -24 July; and 30 July - 20 Aug. 1960, cat. no. 120
2021, London, Piano Nobile, Sickert: The Theatre of Life, 24 Sept. - 17 Dec. 2021, ex. cat.

Literature

Lillian Browse, Sickert, Rupert Hart-Davies, 1960, pl. 64 (illus.)
Wendy Baron, Sickert, Phaidon, 1973, cat. no. 315

Wendy Baron, The Camden Town Group, Scolar, 1979, p. 279

Wendy Baron, Perfect Moderns: A History of the Camden Town Group, Ashgate, 2000, p. 202

Wendy Baron, Sickert: Paintings and Drawings, Yale University Press, 2006, cat. no. 368, pp. 380-381 (illus.)
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