Walter Richard Sickert

Wyndham T. Vint
Sale, Christie's London, 13th June 2002, lot 12, where acquired by the present owners

C.E.M.A., Regional Exhibition, 1943 - 1944, cat. no.24;
London, Tate Gallery, Sickert, Paintings and Drawings, 18th May - 19th June 1960, cat. no.166, and touring to Southampton Art Gallery and Bradford City Art Gallery;
London, Hayward Gallery, Late Sickert, 18th November 1981 - 31st January 1982, cat. no.99, and touring to Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, Norwich and Wolverhampton Art Gallery;
Manchester, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Walter Sickert: Drawing is the Thing, 1st October - 5th December 2004, cat. no.4.34, illustrated in the catalogue, and touring to Southampton City Art Gallery and The Ulster Museum, Belfast.

Wendy Baron, Sickert, Phaidon, London 1973, cat. no.411;
Wendy Baron, Sickert Paintings and Drawings, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2006, cat. no.711.

Original canvas, squared for transfer. The canvas ground is showing through in areas and there are splashes of old staining in the bottom right corner, visible in the catalogue illustration, otherwise in good original condition. Under ultraviolet light, there appear to be no signs of retouching. Held in a stained wood frame under glass; unexamined out of frame. If you have any queries about the present work, please telephone the department on +44 (0) 207 293 5381.
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Executed circa 1934, the present work is based on earlier drawings executed circa 1912-1913 and the seated man in the background was called Hubby and was a frequent model of Sickert's between 1911 and 1914.