Lot 120
120
Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1860-1942)
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Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1860-1942)

Picnic at Martin Église, near Dieppe, France

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Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1860-1942)
Picnic at Martin Église, near Dieppe, France
signed 'Sickert' (lower right) and inscribed 'Martin Eglise' (lower centre)
pen and brown ink
11½ x 8 5/8 in. (29.2 x 22 cm.)
Executed circa 1913-14
Provenance
with Piccadilly Gallery, 1955, where purchased by Fritz Gross (9 gns).
Exhibited
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, Impressionist and Modern, The Art Collection of Fritz Gross, August-October 1990, no. 47.
Special notice
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Sale room notice
Please note that the title of this work is 'Picnic at Martin Eglise, near Dieppe, France' and that Sickert moved to Dieppe in the Autumn of 1898 and not as stated in the catalogue.

Lot Essay

Executed circa 1913-14, this informal sketch was made in the garden of the restaurant Clos Norman in the village of Martin Église near Dieppe. The bearded figure facing out of the drawing is probably the artist himself, sporting the beard he grew in 1913, of which he was very proud. At that time the owner of the Clos Norman was Victor Lecour, whom Sickert painted on a number of occasions.

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