Lot 12
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Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1860-1942)
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Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1860-1942)

The Ghetto, Venice

Details
Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1860-1942)
The Ghetto, Venice
signed 'Sickert' (on the reverse)
oil on panel
5½ x 9 in. (14 x 22.9 cm.)
Painted circa 1897-98
Provenance
with Redfern Gallery, London, where purchased by Mrs Dunne, December 1941, and by descent.
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Lot Essay

The composition of the present work is very close to the background seen in Sickert's portrait of Israel Zangwill (Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh), the Zionist Jewish leader and novelist, who was a friend of Sickert's first wife (see W. Baron, Sickert, London, 1973, p. 315).

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