Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A.

J.W. Freshfield Esq.
The Mayor Gallery, London, where acquired by Lord & Lady Attenborough, 5th June 1959

London, Royal Society of British Artists, Spring 1888, cat. no.351;
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Twee Eeuwen Engelsche Kunst, 4th July - 4th October 1936, no.132 (as Interior van het Scala-Theatre te 's-Granvenhage);
London, Gordon Fraser Gallery, The Art of Sickert, 30th January - 15th February 1936, cat. no.19;
Glasgow, Palace of Arts: The Fine Art Section of the Empire Exhibition Scotland 1938, 3rd May - 29th October 1938, cat. no.110 (as Kurhaus, Scheveningen);
London, National Gallery, Sickert, 1941, cat. no.25;
Leeds, Temple Newsam, The Life Work of Walter Richard Sickert, 28th March - 31st May 1942, cat. no.117;
London, Tate, Sickert. Paintings and Drawings, 18th May - 19th June 1960, cat. no.4, illustrated, with Arts Council tour to Southampton Art Gallery, Southampton and Bradford City Art Gallery, Bradford;
London, The Fine Art Society, Sickert, 21st May - 8th June 1973, cat. no.9, with tour to The Fine Art Society, Edinburgh;
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Sickert Paintings, 20th November 1992 - 14th February 1993, cat. no.5, illustrated, with tour to Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

Lillian Browse, 'A Newly Discovered Sickert', Connoisseur, 169, September 1968, pp.9-11;
Wendy Baron,'Sickert's Links with French Painting', Apollo, 91, March 1970, p.189;
Wendy Baron, Sickert, Phaidon, London, 1973, cat. no.39, illustrated p.19;
Wendy Baron and Richard Shone (ed.), Sickert Paintings, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 1992, cat. no.5, illustrated p.69;
Wendy Baron, Sickert: Paintings and Drawings, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2006, cat. no.41, illustrated p.162. 

The panel is sound, with an extremely minor bowing. There is a thin line of gilt paint from a previous frame, approximately 1.5cm long, to the right vertical edge, and a very fine line of craquelure in line with the grain of the panel in the top right corner. There is a tiny scratch to the gray pigment in the upper left quadrant. There is a very light layer of surface dirt to the work. Subject to the above the work is in very good overall condition. Inspection under ultraviolet light reveals a layer of milky varnish and an area of retouching to the face of the figure in the foreground and a small spot towards the lower horizontal edge. The work is held within an ornate gilt composition frame. Please telephone the department on +44 (0) 207 293 6424 if you have any questions regarding the present work.
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We are grateful to Dr Wendy Baron for her kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.