Title: The Acting Manager or Rehearsal: The End of the Act
Description.
Oil painting of en:Helen Carte. According to the Christie's website, a 1992 exhibition catalogue described the painting as: "A portrait study of Miss Helen Couper-Black, general manager of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, collapsed on a sofa in exhaustion" after a rehearsal. The Christie's website says: "It is tempting to believe the rehearsal pinpointed in Sickert's title was of Whistler's Ten O'Clock Lecture, several presentations of which Miss Couper-Black staged in 1885.... This painting is an early example of Sickert's arbitrary use of titles. Its original title, reminiscent of a ballet scene by Degas, was especially misleading.... The painting is now known as The Acting Manager, the title of an earlier etched portrait, dated 1884 and shown at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition of 1885, of Miss Couper-Black.... Only the sitter and the lamplit effects of the interior are common to both etching and painting."
Much more information about the painting is available here.
Date
between circa 1885 and circa 1886
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Licensing
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
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The author died in 1942, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or fewer.
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The original description page was here. All following user names refer to en.wikipedia.
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2009-11-03 15:46:50 | Ssilvers | 102025 | 512×622 | Source: Scanned from ''Sickert'', by Lillian Browse and Reginald Howard Wilenski, Faber and Faber, London, 1943. *Date: 1885 - 1886 *Painter: Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1860-1942) *Title: ''The Acting Manager'' or ''Rehearsal: The End of the Act''
Captions
The Acting Manager or Rehearsal: The End of the Act (portrait of Helen Carte) (c. 1885-1886)
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