Warren Street

Details

Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1860-1942)
Warren Street
signed with initials 'RD ST.A.R.A.' (lower right) and inscribed 'Warren Street' (lower left)
pencil and watercolour
13 x 9¾ in. (33 x 24.8 cm.)
Executed circa 1916.

Provenance

Ernest Duveen.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 6 July 1960, lot 13.
with Agnews, London.
Basil Samuel.
with Spink, London.
with Fine Art Society, London, where purchased by the present owner in May 2000.

Literature

W. Baron, Sickert, London, 1973, p. 368.
Exhibition catalogue, Walter Sickert, London, Fine Art Society, 2000, p. 28, no. 23, illustrated.

Exhibited

London, Agnews, English Watercolours and Drawings, 88th Annual Exhibition, 1961, no. 172.
London, Fine Art Society, Walter Sickert, May - June 2000, no. 23.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

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 456.6.

Lot Essay

The present work depicts the interior of Sickert's Warren Street studio, which he probably first took in 1916, and kept during the First World War. There is an oil of the same setting, Resting. The Napoleon III Tobacco Jar, circa 1916 (Baron 357, Kirkcaldy Art Gallery).

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