Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A.

Savile Gallery, London, 1929
Mark Oliver, London
Thomas Agnew and Sons, London
Acquired from the above by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in December 1964, through the John R. Van Derlip Fund

London, Royal Academy, The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, 7th May - 11th August 1928, cat. no.652; 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition, 1931, cat. no.257, illustrated; 
London, Thomas Agnew and Sons, Walter Sickert, 1933, cat. no.43;
Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, Autumn Exhibition, 10th October 1935 - 4th January 1936, cat. no.86;
London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Second Anthology Exhibition, 1951, cat. no.113;
London, Thomas Agnew and Sons, Sickert, Centenary Exhibition of Pictures from Private Collections, 15th March - 14th April 1960, cat. no.51;
London, Tate, Sickert, Paintings and Drawings, 18th May - 19th June 1960, cat. no.163, with tour to Southampton Art Gallery, Southampton, and Bradford City Art Gallery, Bradford; 
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 17th August 1972 - 9th July 1973 (on loan from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, details untraced);
London, Hayward Gallery, Late Sickert - Paintings 1927 to 1942, 18th November 1981 - 31st January 1982, cat. no.10, p.93, illustrated back cover, with tour to Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, and Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton.

Robert Emmons, The Life and Opinions of Walter Richard Sickert, London, 1943, pp.210, 212;
'Sickert's in Private Collections', Connoisseur, CXLV, April 1960, p.205, illustrated;
Lillian Browse, Walter Sickert, London, Rupert-Hart Davis, 1960, p.41;
Denys Sutton, 'The Paradoxes of W. R. Sickert', Connoisseur Year Book, 1961, pp.52-56;
'Important Portrait in Minneapolis', Today's Art, 1st February 1965, p.16;
M. L. D'Otrange Mastai, 'The Connoisseur in America', Connoisseur, CLVIII, March  1965, p.210, illustrated;
Wendy Dimson, 'A Sickert Portrait of an Admiral - Acquisitions of Works of Art by Museums and Galleries', Burlington Magazine Supplement, vol. CVII, no.742, January 1965, pp.53-54, illustrated p.52;
Catalogue of European Paintings in The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 1970, p.84, cat. no.41, illustrated p.85;
Wendy Baron, Walter Sickert, London, Phaidon, 1973, pp.173-174, 380, cat. no.402, illustrated fig.277;
Richard Shone, Walter Sickert, Oxford, Phaidon, 1988, p.114; 
Wendy Baron and Richard Shone, Sickert, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1992, p.51, illustrated fig.63;
Wendy Baron, Walter Sickert: Paintings and Drawings, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2006, cat. no.686, pp.521-522, illustrated.

The canvas is original and appears sound. There is a slight wrinkle to the canvas towards the left side of the upper horizontal edge, and the canvas undulates very slightly in places. There is an area where the canvas has been folded over as a result of being framed and is adhered to the front of the edge of the canvas towards the lower half of the right vertical edge. There are some very fine lines of reticulation apparent upon very close inspection in isolated instances to the work. There are some fine lines of craquelure visible to the dark blue pigment of the figure's coat and trousers, with some associated lifting, with one or two further lines of craquelure elsewhere. There are some lines of craquelure and a small associated spot of loss and lifting to the green pigment in the lower left corner just to the left of the figure's sword, and there are a few further very small flecks of loss to the dark red pigment at the lower part of the left vertical edge. There are two small spots of loss at the lower half of the right vertical edge, and a small fleck of loss to an area of yellow pigment on the figure's left arm. There may be one or two very small flecks of possible old loss elsewhere. There is some light surface dirt in places but, subject to the above, the work appears to be in good overall condition. Ultraviolet light reveals a layer of discoloured varnish. There are some spots of retouching to the dark blue coat and trousers of the figure. There is also a spot of retouching to the yellow pigment towards the top of the left vertical edge, and a possible spot of retouching to the figure's face. The work is presented in a moulded gilt frame. Please telephone the department on +44 (0) 207 293 6424 if you have any questions regarding the present work.
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We are grateful to Dr Wendy Baron for her kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.