Lot 43
  • 43

Walter Richard Sickert

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
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Description

  • Walter Richard Sickert
  • Une Dieppoise
  • signed
  • oil on canvas
  • 61.5 by 49.5cm.; 24¼ by 19½in.
  • Executed in 1900.

Provenance

Given by the Artist to Jean McIntyre (Mrs A.E. Anderson) and thence by descent
Private Collection

Exhibited

Berlin, Grosse Berliner Kunst-Ausstellung, 1909;
London, Roland, Browse & Delbanco, Sickert: Forty of his Finest Paintings, 20th June - 4th August 1951, cat. no.22, lent by Mrs A.E. Anderson;
Edinburgh, The Arts Council, An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Walter Sickert, January 1953, cat. no.6, as Woman Carrying a Bucket- Dieppe;
London, Tate Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain, Sickert: Paintings and Drawings, 18th May - 19th June, 1960, cat. no.43, with tour to Southampton Art Gallery and Bradford City Art Gallery.

Literature

Lillian Browse, Sickert, Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1960, p.59, illustrated pl. III;
Wendy Baron, Sickert: Paintings and Drawings, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, cat. no.118.4, illustrated p.230.

Condition

The canvas has been relined. There are some very faint spots of craquelure which correspond with the central and lower stretcher bars and a few spots to the figure and to the foreground. Ultraviolet light reveals an opaque varnish and spots of retouching in the sky and scattered flecks to the building and foreground, notably a v shaped retouching in the lower left quadrant. Please telephone the department on 020 7293 6424 if you have any questions regarding the present work.
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Catalogue Note

We are grateful to Dr Wendy Baron for her kind assistance with the cataloguing of this lot.