Le Chevet de L'Eglise

Details

Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1860-1942)
Le Chevet de L'Eglise
signed, dated and dedicated 'To Mother/W.R. Sickert 1901' (lower right)
pencil, charcoal and ink on buff paper
11 x 6¾ in. (28 x 17.1 cm.)

Provenance

Mrs Oswald Sickert.
F.W. Burmann, New York.
John Greenhill, Sydney.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, The Drawings of Walter Richard Sickert, Perth, The Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1979, illustrated.
W. Baron, Sickert Paintings and Drawings, New Haven and London, 2006, no. 143.6, p. 249.

Exhibited

Perth, The Art Gallery of Western Australia, The Drawings of Walter Richard Sickert, June - July 1979, no. 26: this exhibition travelled to Brisbane, Civic Art Gallery, July - August; and Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, September - October.
Sydney, David Jones' Art Gallery, Paintings and Drawings from Public and Private Collections in Australia, August 1980, no. 35.

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Lot Essay

The present drawing is a preparatory drawing for an oil on canvas composition of this subject, the side of the apse at the east end of the church of St Rémy, Dieppe. Dr Baron comments, 'The scene has hitherto been identified as the chevet of the church of St Jacques [in Dieppe]. In fact it represents the corner of the apse of St Rémy, the second major church in Dieppe, with rue St Rémy in the background. Sickert returned to this motif again in 1913 (see W. Baron, op. cit., no. 437) by which time the little tree in the background had grown to a great height' (see W. Baron, loc. cit.).

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