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

Alla Pescheria

Details
Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1860-1942)
Alla Pescheria
signed 'Sickert' (lower right)
oil on canvas
21¾ x 18 in. (55.3 x 45.7 cm.)
Painted in 1903-04.
Provenance
with Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 21 June 1909, lot 29 (unsold).
with Beaux Arts, London.
Dr Robert Emmons.
with Mayor Gallery, London.
with Anthony d'Offay, London.
Sir Tristan Antico, Sydney; his sale, Sotheby's, London, 22 June 1994, lot 53.
with Fine Art Society, London.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Spring, London, Fine Art Society, 1995, no. 52, illustrated.
W. Baron, Sickert Paintings and Drawings, New Haven and London, 2006, p. 301, no. 227, illustrated.
Exhibited
Paris, Bernheim Jeune, Sickert, January 1907, no. 74.
Paris, Bernheim Jeune, Sickert, June 1909, no. 29.
London, Thos. Agnew & Sons, Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings from the collection of Robert Emmons, 1947, no. 41.
Brighton, Royal Pavilion, Paintings and Drawings, 1962, no. 49 (lent by Mayor Gallery).
Australia, Sydney, David Jones' Art Gallery, Sickert, August 1980, no. 14.
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Lot Essay

In her 2006 catalogue of Sickert's paintings and drawings, Dr Wendy Baron comments on the present work, 'The figure cut off to the left is probably La Guiseppina. This painting recalls the fish still-lifes that Sickert had painted in Dieppe before he left for Venice in 1903, in particular a painting bought by Robert Emmons from the Savile Gallery in 1931 which was destroyed by fire in 1980'.

We are grateful to Wendy Baron, author of the monograph, Sickert Paintings and Drawings, (2006), for her assistance in preparing the catalogue entry for this lot and other lots by Walter Richard Sickert (lots 47, 48, 50, 52, 53 and 54).

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