Woman Seated on a Bed, Dieppe (from Sickert's Shadow Portfolio)
About this artwork
This print is one of a series of five created by Roberts for the ‘Sickert’s Shadow Portfolio’ in 2006. Three of the portfolio etchings, including this one, illustrate women in bed chambers while one is a portrait of British artist Walter Sickert (1860–1942). The series explores the theory raised by numerous writers that Sickert could have been Jack the Ripper, the serial killer. This print takes its title and composition from a haunting painting made by Sickert in 1907. Such dark themes are typical in Roberts’s work, with many of her drawings, paintings and prints exploring death, violence and power as seen from a woman’s perspective.
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title:Woman Seated on a Bed, Dieppe (from Sickert's Shadow Portfolio)
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accession number:GMA 5533 D
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materials:Etching with aquatint and spitbite
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date created:2006
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measurements:Paper 38.00 x 30.50 cm (Plate mark 22.50 x 17.60 cm)
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credit line:Gift 2015
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copyright:© Julie Roberts
Julie Roberts
Julie Roberts
Roberts was born in Fflint, Wales. She studied at Wrexham School of Art, Central St Martin's School of Art and Design and Glasgow School of Art. Roberts established her name with paintings exploring the history of medicine, images of medical instruments, apparatuses and clothing, such as operating tables and straitjackets.…