Vesta Victoria at the Old Bedford

Walter Richard Sickert British
 Subject Vesta Victoria British

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Sickert drew this study as he prepared three oil versions of the subject around 1890. Within the interior of the Bedford Music Hall, the popular performer Vesta Victoria strums a banjo on stage, her lightly sketch figure surrounded by a list of detailed color notes. Within a narrow vertical format the artist indicates the ornamented edge of the stage over arched supports, part of the gallery at upper left, and a male audience member wearing a boater.

Vesta Victoria at the Old Bedford, Walter Richard Sickert (British, Munich 1860–1942 Bathampton, Somerset), Black chalk with white heightening, pen and ink, lines from blue transfer paper, on brown paper

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