'Poor abraded butterflies of the stage': Sickert and the Brighton Pierrots
Resource type
Journal article
Creator (person)
Moorby, Nicola
Date published
2006
Abstract
Sickert's interest in popular entertainment extended beyond the London music-hall and his 1915 painting Brighton Pierrots depicts a troupe of vaudeville performers on the beach at Brighton. This paper explores the social-historical context of seaside Pierrot groups in England and the related European traditions of the Commedia dell'Arte and French pantomime
Journal title
Tate Papers
Issue
5
Publisher
Tate
Place of publication
UK
ISSN
1753-9854
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In Copyright
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