Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1860-1942)
The Rectory
signed 'Sickert.' (lower right)
oil on canvas, lightly squared for transfer
25 x 30 in. (63.8 x 76.3 cm.)
Painted circa 1939.
Provenance
Private collection, London. with Frank Partridge, London. Private collection. Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 4 March 1977, lot 82, as 'The Rectory, Bathampton'. Anonymous sale; Christie's, South Kensington, 1 March 2000, lot 9. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 5 December 2001, lot 9, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
W. Baron, Sickert: Paintings and Drawings, London, 2006, p. 518, no. 678.
Exhibited
London, Leicester Galleries, Retrospective Collection of Drawings and Recent Paintings by Walter Richard Sickert, June 1942, no. 106. London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, Late Sickert Paintings 1927 to 1942, November 1981 - January 1982: this exhibition travelled to Norwich, Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, March - April 1982; and Wolverhampton, Art Gallery, April - May 1982, no. 92, p. 84, illustrated.