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

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

A Scrubbing on the Doorstep

signed lower right Sickert, oil on canvas
25 x 30in. (63.5 x 76.2cm.)

Painted in 1941

Provenance

Chas A. Jackson, Manchester, Nov. 1941
Dr. A. W. Laing; Sale; Sotheby's, 8 July 1970, lot 70
New Grafton Gallery, London
J. M. Rampton, Norwich

Literature

W. Baron, Sickert, London, 1973, no.446, pl.299

Exhibited

Leeds, CEMA, Temple Newsam Gallery, Sickert, 1942, no. 200
Bury, Borough Art Gallery, Steer, Sickert, Epstein, Feb.-March 1954 (not traced)
Three Decades 1915-1945, Oct.-Nov. 1970 (not traced)

Lot Essay

The subject of this work is St. George's Hill House, Bathampton where Sickert lived from December 1938 until his death in January 1942.

A smaller version of the same subject was exhibited at the Hayward Gallery, Late Sickert, 1982, no.120 and is recorded by Wendy Baron, op. cit., no.446

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