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

Les Arcades and La Darse, Dieppe

Details

Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1860-1942)
Les Arcades and La Darse, Dieppe
signed 'Sickert.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm.)
Painted circa 1898

Provenance

Paul Robert, Paris.
with Arthur Tooth & Sons, London.
Baron van der Heyzen Hauzeur, Paris, thence by descent to the present owner.

Literature

L. Browse, Sickert, London, 1960, p.59, pl.II.
W. Baron, Sickert, London, 1973, no.107, p.56, fig.75.

Exhibited

London, New English Art Club, Winter Exhibition, 1898, no.65 as The Sea Front.
London, Arts Council, Tate Gallery, Sickert, May-June 1960, no.40: this exhibition travelled to Southampton, Art Gallery, July 1960; and Bradford, City Art Gallery, August 1960.
Brighton, Royal Pavilion, Paintings and Drawings by Sickert, 1962, no.38.
London, Fine Art Society, Sickert, May-June 1973, no.32: this exhibition travelled to Edinburgh, June 1973.

Lot Essay

A critic of the 1898 exhibition at the New English Art Club noted that this work possessed 'striking effects of tone and colour' and 'audacious truthfulness of illumination'. Wendy Baron (loc. cit.) comments that 'these qualities, broad handling, blue-black tonalities, the use of grey as a dominant colour, curtain-like skies, and dramatic and fluctuating light effects, are all typical of Sickert's landscape style throughout the Dieppe period, but particularly from 1898 to 1900'.

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