View of Milan Cathedral

Details

Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1860-1942)
View of Milan Cathedral
signed 'Sickert' (lower left)
oil on panel
9 3/8 x 6¼ in. (23.7 x 15.9 cm.)
Painted in 1896

Provenance

with Leicester Galleries, London.
Sir Tristan Antico, Sydney.

Special notice

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Sale room notice

We are grateful to Wendy Baron for pointing out that this work was probably painted in 1896 when Sickert was travelling between Venice and Fluellen in Switzerland, and not as indicated in the catalogue notes.

Lot Essay

No visit to Milan by Sickert has been recorded, but the handling of this sketch suggests it belongs to the middle 1880s. Perhaps Sickert stopped off in Milan during his honeymoon tour in 1885, when he and his wife travelled extensively in Europe before renting a house in Dieppe.

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