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

The Obelisk at Arques, Eaulne Valley, Dieppe

细节

Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1860-1942)
The Obelisk at Arques, Eaulne Valley, Dieppe
oil on canvas
20 x 20 in. (51 x 51 cm.)
Painted circa 1913

来源

Beaux Arts Gallery, London.
Anon. sale; Christie's, 6 May 1932, lot 104 (12gns. to Johnson)

拍品专文

In August 1913, Sickert wrote to Miss Sands of 'An obelisk on rising ground. I am looking down on it and the plain rises above the whole length of the obelisk with a river and willows'. The obelisk was the subject of a number of canvases painted in 1913 and again in the summer of 1914.
(See W. Baron, Sickert, London, 1973, p.364).