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Cicely Hey

Image credit: British Council Collection

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'Kikely', as Sickert nicknamed her, was the daughter of painter Dr Darwin Hey, and a painter herself, part of the Bloomsbury world. They first met on 17 January 1923, when she was selling tickets on the door of a lecture by Roger Fry (that 'syren' speaker, said Sickert). The very next day Cicely starting sitting for Sickert in his Fitzroy Street studio, newly decorated with embossed gold wallpaper. Cicely remembered Sickert doing seven portraits of her in 1923, of which she identified the present piece to be the first completed. Three related studies in pen and ink are held in the collection of the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, one of which bears traces of squaring up, Sickert's technique for transferring and enlarging a drawing onto canvas.

British Council Collection

London

Title

Cicely Hey

Date

1922–1923

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 64 x W 77 cm

Accession number

P19

Acquisition method

purchased from the Mayor Gallery, 1948

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

brc: Sickert

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British Council Collection

British Council, 1 Redman Place, London, Greater London E20 1JQ England

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