The Little Shop

Details

Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1860-1942)
The Little Shop
oil on panel
9 x 12½ in. (22.8 x 31.8 cm.)
Painted circa 1888

Provenance

Sir Cyril Butler.
with Michael Parkin Gallery, London.
Reginald Field Glazebrook; his sale (+) Sotheby's, Brynbella, 2 June 1994, lot 368.
with Spink, London.

Literature

W. Baron, Sickert, London, 1973, no. 30(1), p. 301.

Exhibited

London, Fine Art Society, Aspects of Victorian Art, 1971, no. 151. London, Parkin Gallery, Four for Whistlers, 1972, no. 39.
London, Parkin Gallery, The Café Royalists, 1972, no. 77.
London, Parkin Gallery, The London Impressionists, 1975, no. 58.
Eastbourne, Towner Art Gallery, Sickert in Dieppe, May-July 1975, no. 7; this exhibition toured to Guildford, Guildford House, July-August 1975.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Amongst other small oils of the period, The Little Shop can be grouped with The Red Shop (Norwich, Castle Museum) and A Shop in Dieppe (University of Glasgow). Painted in either Dieppe or London, the present work is a classic example of Sickert's Whistlerian-type shop and house fronts, in which he moved from vague definition in some works to a more careful, studied approach in others.

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