Modern British Day Auction

Modern British Day Auction

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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A.

The Old Bedford

Auction Closed

June 30, 10:59 AM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 100,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A.

1860 - 1942

The Old Bedford


signed Sickert. (lower right)

oil on artist's board

unframed: 39 by 31.5cm.; 15¼ by 14½in.

framed: 57.5 by 50cm.; 22¾ by 19¾in.

Executed 1897-98.


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

Dr Robert Emmons
Dudley Tooth, London
Arthur Tooth & Sons, London
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, where acquired by the present owner, 6 May 1993
Burlington Magazine, London, October 1957, p. 347
Wendy Baron, Sickert, Phaidon, London, 1973, cat. no. 76, illustrated fig. 47
Wendy Baron, Sickert, Paintings and Drawings, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2006, no. 97.23, p. 213, illustrated p. 214
London, Thomas Agnew & Sons, Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by W.R. Sickert from the Collection of Robert Emmons, May - June 1947, no. 40
Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery, Sickert: An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Prints, September - October 1957, no. 4
London, Thomas Agnew & Sons, Sickert, Centenary Exhibition of Pictures from Private Collections, 15 March - 14 April 1960, no. 5 (as The Little Old Bedford)