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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2009.90.23
People
Walter Sickert, British (Munich, Germany 1860 - 1942 Bathampton, Somerset, England)
Title
"What shall we do about the rent?"
Other Titles
Alternate Title: The Camden Town Murder
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1908
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/11245

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and white chalk on thin green wove paper (discolored to tan)
Dimensions
25.1 x 37.5 cm (9 7/8 x 14 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r., brown ink: Rd St A.R.A.
  • inscription: brown ink, lower edge, in the artist's hand: Sketch for "What shall we do about the rent?"
  • label: formerly back of frame, printed and typed: DC-ART / Artist: Walter Sickert / Title: 'Drawing for the Camden Town Murder", 1908 / Size: / Exhibition: 'Sickert and Pissarro' in Association with Richard Nagy / Stock No: 15 / 36 JERSEY ROAD, WOOLLAHRA, 2025, NSW AUSTRALIA 327 8626

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Mark Oliver, London. [Thomas Agnew, London]. Mrs. Robert Coe; The Hon. Robert Coe, Cannes. [Richard Nagy, London, no. 14]. [Bonham's, Knightsbridge, London, 15 November 2005, no. 142, repr.] [Clive Farahar & Sophie Dupré, Calne, Wiltshire], sold; to Patricia Cornwell, 2005, gift; to Harvard Art Museum, 2009

NOTE: Mark Oliver was a pupil of Sickert and owner of the Savile Gallery.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Patricia Cornwell
Copyright
© Estate of Walter Richard Sickert / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
2009
Object Number
2009.90.23
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Wendy Baron, Sickert, Phaidon (London, England, 1973), no. 269.2
  • Wendy Baron, Sickert Paintings and Drawings, Yale University Press (New Haven and London, 2006), no. 348.3

Exhibition History

  • Walter Richard Sickert, Lucien Pissarro, DC-ART, Sydney, 08/01/1989 - 08/31/1989

Verification Level

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