Walter Richard Sickert

Purchased in Torquay circa 1965

The work is executed on marked paper with a border and an inscription 'A EDELFE VID PIANOT'. Two faint surface abrasions along the lower edge. Slightly discoloured and dirty but generally sound. Laid down onto card and adhered to a simple paper mount. Held in an old green mount with no frame.
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Vernet's, at the far end of the Quai Henry IV, was a lively cabaret café facing the harbour in the quarter of Dieppe known as 'au bout du quai' ('at the end of the quay'). Depicting the café beyond viewed from the wings, the present work relates to Au Caboulot Au Bout Du Quai¹. Sickert was a regular visitor to Vernet's, and the present work is a previously unrecorded example from the many drawings of the performers and clientele he made there.

We are grateful to Wendy Baron for her kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.

1.  Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Walter Sickert, London 2006, p. 496, no. 583