Reclining Nude (thin Adeline) — Walter Richard Sickert

Reclining Nude (Thin Adeline)

Discover Walter Richard Sickert’s ‘Reclining Nude (Thin Adeline)’ – a 1906 oil painting of a nude male figure in a Parisian hotel room. Explore its realism, impressionistic touches & evocative style.


Walter Richard Sickert (1860 - 1942)

Discover Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942), a pivotal British painter influenced by Whistler & Degas. Known for evocative scenes of London life, music halls, and interiors, he was central to early 20th-century avant-garde art.

In the fall of 1906, Sickert painted a number of models who posed for him in his Paris hotel room, later recalling that "the alcove of the beds in some of the rooms are beautifully lit." A group of these pictures, which are reminiscent of keyhole views by Degas and Bonnard that Sickert knew, were included in an exhibition held at Galerie Bernheim-Jeune in Paris in early 1907. In the accompanying catalogue, this work was called La Maigre Adeline (Thin Adeline).