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The Bathing Sea at Dieppe

Sickert explores the meeting of sea and overcast sky in this image of the beach at Dieppe, a resort town on the coast of Normandy. While using a vertically oriented format, Sickert cleanly divides his composition into flat, horizontal bands and applies the blue green of the calm sea and the gray of the low-hanging clouds in thick but evenly applied strokes that run the width of the panel. Although Sickert defines the horizon line with linear precision, he reveals a lighter, more improvisational touch in the puffy white clouds, the patch of blue sky, and the throngs of holiday makers who mark the water’s edge.


• Artist: Walter Richard Sickert, British, born Germany 1860 - 1942
• Medium: Oil on panel
• Place Made: France
• Dates: 1885
• Dimensions: 12 1/2 x 9 1/8 x 1/8 in. (31.8 x 23.2 x 0.3 cm)
• Signature: Signed lower right: "Sickert."
• Inscriptions: Verso upper left: "10 Rue Sygogne/20 mil (?) Vernis"
• Collections: European Art
• Museum Location: This item is not on view
• Accession Number: 18.37
• Credit Line: Gift of Ferdinand Gottschalk
• Image: Overall, 18.37_SL1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
Walter Richard Sickert (British, born Germany 1860 - 1942). The Bathing Sea at Dieppe, 1885. Oil on panel, 12 1/2 x 9 1/8 x 1/8 in. (31.8 x 23.2 x 0.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Ferdinand Gottschalk, 18.37 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 18.37_SL1.jpg)