La Gaieté Rochechouart

Details

Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1860-1942)
La Gaieté Rochechouart
charcoal and coloured chalks on buff paper, lightly squared for transfer
8 x 12 in. (20.3 x 30.5 cm.)
Executed in 1906.

Provenance

with Redfern Gallery, London, where purchased by the present owner's uncle in July 1941.

Literature

A. Greutzner Robins, Walter Sickert: Drawings Theory and Practice: Word and Image, 1996, p. 86.

Exhibited

London, Carfax Gallery, Drawings by Walter Richard Sickert, January 1911, no. 18.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The present work is the squared drawing on which the painting of the same subject, know as Les Loges is based. The oil which was once in the collection of Denys Sutton (see lots 18 - 21) is catalogued in W. Baron, Sickert, London, 1973, no. 242 and is illustrated in L. Browse, Sickert, London, 1960, pl. 14.

W.B.

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