Le Vieux Colombier

Details

Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1860-1942)
Le Vieux Colombier
oil on canvas
15 x 12½ in. (38.1 x 31.7 cm.)
Painted in 1913.

Provenance

with Roland, Browse and Delbanco, London.
Mrs Wilde.
Martin Oliphant.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 26 November 1969, lot 348, where purchased by Manor Gallery.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 10 November 1989, lot 210.

Literature

M. Lilly, Sickert The Painter and His Circle, London, 1971, pp. 37-39.
W. Baron, Sickert, London, 1973, p. 363, (under no. 342).

Exhibited

London, Roland, Browse and Delbanco, Walter Richard Sickert, March 1950, no. 2.
(Possibly) Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery.
Southampton, City Art Gallery, Camden Town Group, June 1951, no. 116.

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Lot Essay

In July 1913 Sickert wrote to Miss Sands, 'I have started studies of an old farmyard with a dovecot raised up on one beam of timber, innumerable mossy timber beams, writhing like snakes on the ground, a fond of fat rich dark chestnut trees going out of the picture and posts and gates and barrels in shadow showing mysterious clairière effect of leafage in the distance. A Corot-Millet subject Germanised a little ...' (W. Baron, loc. cit.).

The present work is one of a small group of studies for La Sciere de Torqueville (Le Vieux Colombier) (Dundee Art Gallery) depicting the timber yard at Torqueville. Torqueville is a hamlet just outside Envermeu where Sickert and his wife had a house.

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