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

The Evening Primrose

Details

Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1860-1942)
The Evening Primrose
signed 'Sickert' (lower right)
oil on canvas
12¼ x 16½ in. (31.1 x 41.9 cm.)
Painted circa 1928

Provenance

Redfern Gallery, London, 1942.
Ralph Smith, thence to Susan Hunt.

Literature

W. Baron, Late Sickert Paintings 1927 to 1942, Hayward Gallery Exhibition Catalogue, London, 1981, p.108.

Exhibited

London, Savile Gallery, Paintings by Richard Sickert, A.R.A., 1930, no.5.
Sydney, David Jones's Art Gallery, Sickert, August 1980, no.19.

Lot Essay

A young girl is glimpsed through the railings in front of the basement of an Islington terraced house. A larger upright (22 x 17 in.) version of this subject was also exhibited at the Savile Gallery in 1930, no.2 as 'The Area Steps'. When this larger painting was exhibited at the National Gallery, London, in 1941 as no.96, it had acquired a sub-title - 'Angel Basement' - adapted from J.B. Priestley's novel Angel Pavement, published in 1930.

We are very grateful to Dr. Wendy Baron for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.

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