Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1860-1942)
Belmont, Lansdown Road, Bath
signed 'Sickert' (lower right)
oil on canvas, lightly squared for transfer
22 ½ x 32 in. (56.2 x 81.3 cm.)
Painted in 1940-41.
Provenance
Royan Middleton, Aberdeen. Constance J.W. Fettes, and by descent.
Literature
W. Baron, Sickert, London, 1973, pp. 177, 387, no. 445, fig. 301, incorrectly listed as 'The Vineyards, Bath'. W. Baron, Sickert,Paintings and Drawings, New Haven and London, p. 561, no. 783.
Exhibited
London, Leicester Galleries, Retrospective Collection of Drawings and Recent Paintings by Walter Richard Sickert, June 1942, no. 108, as 'Bladud Buildings, Bath'. London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, Late Sickert: Paintings 1927 to 1942, November 1981 - January 1982, no. 117, as 'Bladud Buildings, Bath': this exhibition travelled to Norwich, University of East Anglia, Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, March - April 1982; and Wolverhampton, City Art Gallery, April - May 1982.