Study for Glencora (after John Gilbert)

Details

Walter Richard Sickert, R.A (1860-1942)
Study for Glencora (after John Gilbert)
oil on canvas
18 x 30 in. (45.7 x 76.2 cm.)
Painted in 1930-31.

Literature

W. Baron, Sickert Paintings and Drawings, New Haven and London, 2006, p. 506, no. 611.1

Exhibited

London, Leicester Galleries, English echoes, A series of paintings by Richard Sickert, A.R.A., May 1931, no. 17.
London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, Late Sickert, November 1981 - January 1982, no. 66: this exhibition travelled to Norwich, Sainsbury Center, March - April 1982, Wolverhampton, Art Gallery, April - May 1982.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

Based on the character of Lady Glencora, in the Palliser novels of Anthony Trollope, this work forms part of the series of Echo paintings that Sickert executed after Victorian designs. The finished painting is in the collection of the Gloucester Art Gallery.

We are very grateful to Dr Wendy Baron for her assistance cataloguing the present lot.

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