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

Self-Portrait

Details

Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1860-1942)
Self-Portrait
signed and inscribed 'Sickert inv. et del.' (lower left)
pen, brush, black ink and wash on buff paper
10.3/8 x 8.3/8 in. (26.4 x 21.3 cm.)
Executed in 1897

Provenance

Sir John and Lady Witt, their sale; Sotheby's, 19 February 1987, lot 383.

Literature

The Year's Art, London, 1898, illustrated opposite p.132.
R. Pickvance, The Listener, 24 August 1961, p.281.
W. Baron, Sickert, London, 1973, no.95, p.53, fig. 63.

Lot Essay

Wendy Baron dates this drawing to 1897 as it was published in The Year's Art, a magazine which illustrated events that had ocurred the previous year. The architectural background must therefore have been taken from imagination and sketches made in Venice in 1895-96.

We are very grateful to Dr. Wendy Baron for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.

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