Lot 112
  • 112

Walter Richard Sickert

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Walter Richard Sickert
  • The Lay Figure
  • signed with initials and titled; also inscribed La Vie Moins Chere on the reverse
  • watercolour
  • 38.5 by 27.5cm.; 15¼ by 10¾in.

Provenance

Lord Clwyd
Sale, Christie's London, 9th July 1963, lot 32
Sale, Sotheby's London, 18th July 1990, lot 122, where acquired by the present owners

Exhibited

Manchester, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Walter Sickert: Drawing is the Thing, 1st October - 5th December 2004, cat. no.7.19, illustrated in the catalogue, and touring to Southampton City Art Gallery and The Ulster Museum, Belfast.

Literature

Wendy Baron, Sickert, Paintings and Drawings, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2006, cat. no.461.6

Condition

Executed on laid paper with deckled edges. The sheet is sound and is slightly discoloured with an old mount mark around the edges. The colours have very slightly faded and there are some very minor specks of staining otherwise in good overall condition. Mounted on a cream backboard with cream passepartout, in a plaster gilt frame under glass; unexamined out of frame. If you have any queries about the present work, please telephone the department on +44 (0) 207 293 5575.
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Catalogue Note

Executed circa 1916-1917.