Edgar Degas, L'Absinthe 1875-6, Oil on canvas
Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec: London and Paris 1870–1910
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Room 8

Interior Lives

The 1900s

This final room is dominated by Degas’s powerful Interior and Sickert’s Ennui. Both paintings evoke psychological states through the studied arrangement of figures in domestic interiors.

Edgar Degas 1834-1917 Interior (The Rape) 1868-9
Edgar Degas 1834-1917
Interior (The Rape) 1868-9
Image courtesy of Philadelphia Museum of Art. The Henry P McIlhenny Collection in Memory of Frances P McIlhenny 1986

Walter Richard Sickert 1860-1942 Ennui 1914
Walter Richard Sickert 1860-1942
Ennui 1914
Estate of Walter R Sickert. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2002

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