Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1860-1942)

Putana Veneziana

Details

Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1860-1942)
Putana Veneziana
signed, inscribed and dated 'Sickert. Venezia. 1903.' (lower right)
charcoal
11¾ x 8¼ in. (30 x 21 cm.)

Provenance

André Gide.
Hugh Beaumont.
Thos. Agnew & Sons, London.

Literature

W. Baron, Sickert, London, 1973, p.333, no.176, fig.121.

Exhibited

London, Tate Gallery, Walter Richard Sickert, May-June 1960, no.96: this exhibition travelled to Southampton, Art Gallery, July 1960; and Bradford, City Art Gallery, August 1960.

Lot Essay

The present work is one of a group of four drawings of informal Venetian bedroom studies, all in charcoal and dated to 1903, formerly in the collection of the writer André Gide.
(see W. Baron, op. cit., p.333).

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