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The Height of the Season
Walter Richard Sickert
European Art
On View:
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.
MEDIUM
Oil on panel
DATES
1885
DIMENSIONS
12 1/2 × 9 1/8 × 1/8 in. (31.8 × 23.2 × 0.3 cm)
frame: 23 × 20 × 2 1/2 in. (58.4 × 50.8 × 6.4 cm) (show scale)
SIGNATURE
Signed lower right: "Sickert."
INSCRIPTIONS
Verso upper left: "10 Rue Sygogne/20 mil (?) Vernis"
COLLECTIONS
European Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
18.37
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Ferdinand Gottschalk
EXHIBITIONS
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Walter Richard Sickert (British, born Germany 1860–1942). The Height of the Season, 1885. Oil on panel, 12 1/2 × 9 1/8 × 1/8 in. (31.8 × 23.2 × 0.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Ferdinand Gottschalk, 18.37. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 18.37_SL1.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 18.37_SL1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
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