Walter Richard Sickert
Reverie
, c. 1915-16.
oil on canvas
signed 'Sickert' (lower left)
20 x 16 in / 50 x 40 cm
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Provenance
Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill.Lord Cottesloe.The Cottesloe Trustees.Their sale; Sotheby's, London, 19 May 1982, lot 83.with Browse and Darby, London.Purchased by the present owner in the 1980s.
Exhibitions
London, Eldar Gallery, Walter Sickert, January - February 1919, no. 19.London, National Gallery, Sickert, August - December 1941, no. 56.Leeds, Temple Newsam House, The Life and Work of Walter Richard Sickert,March - May 1942, no. 176.London, Hampstead Artist's Council, Haverstock Hill Town Hall, Camden TownGroup, May - June 1965, no. 67, catalogue not traced.
Literature
L. Browse, Sickert, London, 1960, pp. 34, 78, no. 72, illustrated.W. Baron, Sickert, London, 1973, pp. 154, 369, no. 360.W. Baron, Sickert: Paintings and Drawings, New Haven and London, 2006, p.429, no. 451.
Walter Richard Sickert
La Scuola Grande di San Marco
, c. 1895–1896
oil on canvas
signed lower left
50 x 76 cm / 20 x 30 in
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Walter Sickert described Venice as ‘the loveliest city in the world’ (A. Greutzner Robins (ed.), Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art, Oxford, 2000, p. 182). First visiting in 1894...
Walter Sickert described Venice as ‘the loveliest city in the world’ (A. Greutzner
Robins (ed.), Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art, Oxford, 2000,
p. 182). First visiting in 1894 with his wife Ellen, he made a succession of
longer visits in subsequent years, staying for several months at a time. The
present work was executed in the frst of these sojourns in 1895-96, a stay
characterised by a focus on well-known architectural sites of which the Scuola
Grande di San Marco was one. Writing to his friend and fellow artist, Philip
Wilson Steer, Sickert lists his favoured subjects, ‘St. Mark’s is engrossing
and the Ducal Palace and two or three Renaissance gems, the Miracoli and
S. Zaccharia and the Scuola di San Marco’ (R. Upstone, exhibition catalogue,
Sickert in Venice, London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2009, p. 72).
Sickert’s practice was to investigate the potential of paint by repeating similar
compositions and studies, inspired by viewing Monet’s sequence of canvases
exploring the efects of light upon Rouen Cathedral. Exemplifying his technical
profciency, feathery brushstrokes are combined with a more defned rendering
of the architecture to achieve a strikingly evocative representation of the
subject. One of several compositions of the Scuola Grande di San Marco,
the present work is the most atmospheric in its representation of the Scuola,
described by Wendy Baron as ‘the only extant version to suit the title Sirocco
(in its suggestion of an impending storm)’ (W. Baron, Sickert: Paintings and
Drawings, New Haven and London, 2006, p. 219).
Provenance
The Savile GalleryLefevre Gallery Sir George Sutton Mrs William MillerChristie's sale, London 1983, lot 38. Private collection Switzerland and by descent.
Exhibitions
Dudley Gallery, London 1896, no. 1o0, as 'Sirocco'Royal Pavillion, Brighton 1962, no. 54, as 'Rio dei Mendicanti'Fine Arts Society, London 1973, no 26.
Literature
The Daily Telegraph, 4 April 1896.W. Baron, Sickert, London, 1973, p. 313, no. 18, pl. 54.W. Baron , Sickert: Paintings and Drawings, New Haven and London, 2006, p. 219, illustrated.
Walter Richard Sickert
Flowers in a White Vase
, 1911
oil on canvas
signed, indistinctly dedicated and dated 'To Miss Regina Middleton/W.Rt. Sickert 1911' lower left
20 x 16 1/4 in / 51 x 41 cm
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Walter Richard Sickert
Nude at a Mirror (Sally)
, 1906-07
oil on canvas
signed lower right
24 x 19 1/2 in / 61 x 49.5 cm
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Provenance
Judge Evans
Howard Bliss
Herbert H Marks
Exhibitions
Arts Club, Sickert, Chicago, 1938
Tate Gallery, 1939
National Gallery, British Painting Since Whistler, 1940, no. 190
National Gallery, Sickert, 1941, no. 4
Southampton Art Gallery, Camden Town Group, 1951
Scottish Arts Council, Sickert, Edinburgh, 1953
Arts Council, Camden Town Group, 1953-54
Stedelijk Museum, Europe 1907, Amsterdam, 1957
Tate Gallery, Sickert, 1960, no. 106
Southampton Art Gallery, Sickert, 1960
Bradford City Art Gallery, Sickert, 1960
Hampstead Festival, Camden Town Group, 1965, no. 62
Literature
Lillian Browse, Sickert, 1943, pl. 25
Walter Richard Sickert
Minnie Cunningham
, 1892
oil on canvas
signed verso
24 x 18 in / 61 x 45.7 cm
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Exhibitions
Saville Gallery, 1926