WALTER RICHARD SICKERT, A.R.A. (1860-1942)
WALTER RICHARD SICKERT, A.R.A. (1860-1942)
WALTER RICHARD SICKERT, A.R.A. (1860-1942)
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WALTER RICHARD SICKERT, A.R.A. (1860-1942)

La Siesta

Details
WALTER RICHARD SICKERT, A.R.A. (1860-1942)
La Siesta
signed 'Sickert.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
15 x 18 in. (38.1 x 45.7 cm.)
Painted in 1903-04.
Provenance
with Adolphe Tavernier and Bernheim Jeune, Paris, January 1907.
Dr Robert Emmons, and by descent.
Acquired in the 1980s, and by descent.
Literature
R. Emmons, The Life and Opinions of Walter Richard Sickert, London, 1941, p. 112, illustrated, as 'La Giuseppina'.
L. Browse, Sickert, London, 1943, p. 44, as 'La Giuseppina'.
W. Baron, Sickert, London, 1973, p. 333, no. 171.3.
R. Shone, Walter Sickert, Oxford, 1988, n.p., pl. 5.
W. Baron, Sickert: Paintings and Drawings, New Haven and London, 2006, pp. 293-294, no. 211.3, illustrated.
Exhibited
Paris, Bernheim Jeune, Exposition Sickert, January 1907, no. 29, as 'La Chiozzota'.
London, Leicester Galleries, Paintings and Drawings by W.R. Sickert from the Collection of Dr Robert Emmons, May - June 1950, no. 8, as 'The Wedding Ring (La Giuseppina)'.
London, Thos. Agnew & Sons, Sickert: Centenary Exhibition of Pictures from Private Collections, March - April 1960, p. 29, no. 25, illustrated.
London, Royal Academy, Sickert: Paintings, November 1992 - February 1993, pp. 142-143, no. 39, illustrated: this exhibition travelled to Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, February - May 1993.
London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Sickert in Venice, March - June 2009.
Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland, on long term loan 2016 - 2024.

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