Le Grand Duquesne

Details

Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1860-1942)
Le Grand Duquesne
signed and dated 'Sickert. 1899.' (lower left)
pencil, charcoal, white chalk and black ink on buff paper
21 x 18 in. (53.3 x 45.7 cm.)

Provenance

with Lefevre Gallery, London.
with City of Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester.
Sir George Barnes, and by descent.

Literature

L. Browse, Sickert, London, 1960, p. 68, pl. 24a.
W. Baron, Sickert, London, 1973, p. 319, under no. 111, drawing I.

Exhibited

London, Arts Council, Tate Gallery, Sickert paintings and drawings, May - June 1960, no. 60: this exhibition travelled to Southampton, Art Gallery, July 1960; and Bradford, City Art Gallery, July - August 1960.

Special notice

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Sale room notice

The present work will be included in Dr Wendy Baron's forthcoming monograph to be published by Yale in the autumn of 2006, Sickert: Paintings & Drawings, listed under catalogue number 125.10.

Lot Essay

The statue of Admiral Duquesne in the Place Nationale is by Dantan the Elder. Duquesne, a native of Dieppe, defeated the Dutch admiral de Ruyter in 1676. Sickert painted the statue on a number of occasions. The present, very finished drawing, was probably a study for the painting (see W. Baron, loc. cit.).

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