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

A Child of the Ghetto (Mr Israel Zangwill)

Details

Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1860-1942)
A Child of the Ghetto (Mr Israel Zangwill)
signed 'Sic.' (lower right), and signed again and inscribed 'I. Zangwill./W. Sickert/13 Robert Street.' (on a sheet attached to the backboard)
ink, watercolour and gouache on paper
13 ½ x 8 3/8 in. (34.4 x 21.2 cm.)
Executed in 1897.

Provenance

Purchased by Mr Logan Pearsall Smith at the 1941 exhibition.
R.A. Harari.
with Fine Art Society, London, where purchased by Edgar Astaire, June 1995.

Literature

Vanity Fair, 25 February 1897, illustrated.
W. Baron, Sickert: Paintings and Drawings, New Haven and London, 2006, pp. 199-200, no. 79.2.

Exhibited

London, Leicester Galleries, The First Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture by Artists of Fame and Promise, Summer 1941, no. 38.

Lot Essay

Israel Zangwill (1964-1926), the Zionist Jewish leader and novelist, was a friend of Sickert's first wife. The present work was a cartoon for Vanity Fair, published on 25 February 1897, called A Child of the Ghetto after the title of Zangwill's story set in the Venetian ghetto, which had just been published.

There is an oil portrait of Israel Zangwill by Sickert in the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh.

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