Modern British Art
Modern British Art
Property from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Sold to Benefit Future Acquisitions
Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A.
The Old Middlesex
Auction Closed
June 28, 02:51 PM GMT
Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Sold to Benefit Future Acquisitions
Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A.
1860 - 1942
The Old Middlesex
signed Sickert (lower right)
oil on canvas
unframed: 64 by 77cm.; 25¼ by 30½in.
framed: 81 by 94cm.; 32 by 37in.
Executed in 1906.
Sale, Christie’s, London, 17 June 1932, lot 119, where acquired by Thérèse Lessore
Beaux Art Gallery, London, by 1943
Hutchison & Co. Publishers Ltd, London
Sale, Christie’s London, 20 July 1951, lot 64, where acquired by The Leicester Galleries, London
Acquired from the above by Lord Beaverbrook, 1954, by whom gifted to the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in 1959
Lillian Browse and R.H. Wilenski, Sickert, Faber and Faber, London, 1943, illustrated pl. 2
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Paintings, University Press of New Brunswick, Fredericton, 1959, pp. 59 - 60
Lillian Browse, Sickert, Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1960, p. 86
Wendy Baron, Sickert, Phaidon, London, 1973, no. 231, p. 91, p. 341, illustrated fig. 160
Wendy Baron, The Camden Town Group, Scolar Press, 1979, pp. 117, 391
Wendy Baron, Sickert, Paintings and Drawings, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2006, p. 60, no. 282, illustrated p. 331
London, Beaux Arts Gallery, 1933, no. 21 (probably)
Paris, New English Art Club, Exhibition of the New English Art Club, 30 June - 23 July 1938, no. 95
Fredericton, University of New Brunswick, Exhibition of the Beaverbrook Collection of Paintings and Prints and some Portraits from the Collection of Sir James Dunn, 8 - 20 November 1954, no. 34
Fredericton, University of New Brunswick, Exhibition of Paintings by Old and Modern Masters, 19 October - 4 November 1955, no. 100
Halifax, Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Walter Richard Sickert Exhibition, November - December 1971 (unnumbered)