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

Study for 'The Soldiers of King Albert the Ready'

Details
Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1860-1942)
Study for 'The Soldiers of King Albert the Ready'
signed and inscribed 'Study for the Soldiers of Albert the Ready/Sickert' (lower right)
pencil and brown ink
10¾ x 10¾ in. (27.3 x 27.3 cm.)
Executed in 1914.
Provenance
with Fine Art Society, London, where purchased by the present owner in May 1995.
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 in the autumn of 2006, Sickert: Paintings & Drawings, listed under catalogue number 445.7.

Lot Essay

The present drawing is a study for Sickert's painting The Soldiers of King Albert the Ready, 1914 (Baron 351, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield), which was inspired by an incident of Belgian heroism at Liège in August 1914 (see W. Baron, Sickert, London, 1973, pp. 144-5, 149-50, 366). Baron notes that Sickert would have seen many photographs of this incident in the newspapers which were close in composition and subject matter to his painting and that he 'also made studies from living models, Belgian soldiers whom he met in cafés, so that 'for a while his room was tripping full of rifles, boots and other military accoutrements'' (op. cit., p. 144).

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