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

Details

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

Chopin

signed lower left Sickert, oil on canvas
20¾ x 16½in. (52.8 x 42cm.)

Painted in 1914

Provenance

Earl and Countess Jowett

Literature

L. Browse, Sickert, London, 1960, p.77
W. Baron, Sickert, London, 1973, no.352(2)

Exhibited

London, Eldar Gallery, Sickert, 1919, no.21 (illustrated in the catalogue)
London, Browse and Darby, Walter Richard Sickert, Nov.-Dec. 1981, no. 20

Lot Essay

The present work is closely related to a painting of 1914 'Tipperary', which is in the collection of the Tate Gallery, London. Sickert's studio in Red Lion Square had a grand piano of which Sickert wrote to Miss Sands 'Chicken has been playing the Contes d' Hoffman while I have been painting her reflection at the piano'
(W. Baron, op. cit., p.p.366-67)

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