Santa Maria della Salute

Details

Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1860-1942)
Santa Maria della Salute
signed 'Sickert' (lower right)
oil on panel; partly squared for transfer
10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm.)
Painted circa 1901.

Provenance

Dr. Robert Emmons.
Edward le Bas, R.A., Brighton.
Raymond Mortimer.

Literature

A. Bertram, Sickert, London and New York, 1955, pl. 13.
W. Baron, Sickert, London, 1973, pp. 63 and 326, (under no. 134).

Exhibited

(Possibly) London, Leicester Galleries, June 1929, no. 49.
London, Agnew's, Paintings and Drawings by Sickert from the collection of Robert Emmons, 1947, no. 64.
London, Royal Academy, A Painter's Collection, 1963, no. 142.
London, Fine Art Society, Sickert Loan Exhibition, May-June 1973, no. 38: this exhibition toured to Edinburgh, June 1973.

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Lot Essay

'Sickert painted this close-up view of the church of Santa Maria della Salute at least four times on canvas during and after his visits to Venice in 1900 and 1901. He presented one version to the Royal Academy as his diploma work. As usual each version is a completely different picture, especially in the varying light effects which so alter the mood and character of the subject (for example one shows the church in sunlight under a bright blue sky, another at twilight suffused by a warm pink glow). In this lightly painted, squared-up little panel the solid forms of the building are given a mobility and lightness. The squaring, which can be seen very plainly in many of Sickert's Venetian paintings of this period, was not intended to show' (Exhibition catalogue, Sickert Loan Exhibition, London, Fine Art Society, 1973, no. 38).

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