Doctor Cobbledick

Details

Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1860-1942)
Doctor Cobbledick
oil on canvas; squared for transfer
22 x 17 in. (56 x 43 cm.)
Painted circa 1929

Provenance

The sitter; Christie's, 10 June 1936, lot 46 (10gns. to Faith).
Redfern Gallery, London; Christie's, Red Cross Sale, 9 October 1942, lot 56 (12gns. to Langden).
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, 1 March 1989, lot 24.

Exhibited

London, Redfern Gallery, Richard Sickert, 1940, no.5.
Bath, Victoria Art Gallery, From Beardsley to Beaverbrook, Portraits by Walter Richard Sickert, May-June 1990, no.39 (illustrated in colour).

Lot Essay

Dr. Arthur Stanbury Cobbledick, M.D., was an opthalmologist who treated Sickert for an eye ailment, and attended classes at Sickert's Highbury Place school. The present work is a second version of a portrait exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1930, no.256, which was painted in lieu of medical fees.
(see R. Shone, Victoria Art Gallery Exhibition Catalogue, Bath, 1990, p.38).

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