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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A.

Mornington Crescent Nude

Auction Closed

June 30, 10:59 AM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 100,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A.

1860 - 1942

Mornington Crescent Nude


signed Sickert. (lower left)

oil on canvas

unframed: 50.5 by 41cm.; 20 by 16in.

framed: 68.5 by 58.5cm.; 27 by 23in.

Executed circa 1907.


We are grateful to Wendy Baron for her kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.

Acquired directly from the Artist by Hugh Hammersley, 1907

The Hon. John Fremantle

Rowland, Browse & Delbanco, London

T.W. Strachan

Rowland, Browse & Delbanco, London

William E. Wallace, and thence by descent to his widow

Her sale, Christie's, London, 8th November 1990, lot 76, where acquired by present owner

Lillian Browse, Sickert, Faber & Faber, London, 1943, illustrated pl. 32, n.p
Lillian Browse, Sickert, Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1960, illustrated pl. 56, n.p
Wendy Baron, Sickert, Phaidon, London, 1973, no.259, illustrated fig. 175 
Wendy Baron, The Camden Town Group, Scholar Press, London, 1979, no. 37, illustrated pp. 160-61
Wendy Baron, Sickert, Paintings and Drawings, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2006, no. 332, illustrated p. 359