WALTER SICKERT, R.A. | STUDY FOR CAMDEN TOWN MURDER IN POSSESSION OF SIGNAC

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Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

Lot Details

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Property of a Prestigious European Collector

WALTER SICKERT, R.A.

1860-1942

STUDY FOR CAMDEN TOWN MURDER IN POSSESSION OF SIGNAC

signed with initials, titled and inscribed

charcoal, chalk, crayon and pen and ink on paper

unframed: 37.5 by 25cm.; 14¾ by 9¾in.

framed: 54 by 41.5cm.; 14¾ by 16¼in.

Executed in 1909.

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Henry Scipio Reitlinger (1882-1950)

His sale, Sotheby's London, 26th May 1954, lot 567, where acquired by A.A. (Bobby) Bevan (1901-1974)

William Ware Gallery, where acquired by the present owner, 1968

Wendy Baron, Sickert: Paintings and Drawings, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2006, cat. no.354.8, p.374.

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

This work is a study for Walter Sicker's L'Affaire de Camden Town, which was bought by Paul Signac, the neo-Impressionist painter, from the dealers Bernheim Jeune in Paris in 1909.