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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2009.90.13
People
Walter Sickert, British (Munich, Germany 1860 - 1942 Bathampton, Somerset, England)
Title
Studies of Female Artistes on Stage at the Old Middlesex
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Standing Figures at the Old Middlesex
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1889
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/12884

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on tan wove paper
Dimensions
35.8 x 48.9 cm (14 1/8 x 19 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r., graphite: Sickert
  • inscription: lower right, graphite, in artist's hand: Old Middlesex / before 1899
  • label: formerly back of frame, printed and typed: 1979 PERTH SURVEY OF DRAWING / THE DRAWINGS OF WALTER RICHARD SICKERT / CAT. No. 5 / TITLE Standing Figures at the Old Middlesex c1890 / COLLECTION The Fine Art Society, London / THE ART GALLERY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
  • label: formerly back of frame, printed and typed: SPINK / FOUNDED 1666 / KING STREET, ST. JAMES'S, / LONDON. S.W.1 / No. APB 6018

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Spink, London, per label on back of frame]. Lucy Carrington Wertheim, sold; [Christie's, 9 December 1960, lot 127]. [The Fine Art Society, London]. [Christie's, London, 3 May 1990, lot 2, repr.]. [Sotheby's Olympia, London, 8 June 2005, lot 21]. Patricia Cornwell, gift; to Harvard Art Museum, 2009

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
2009.90.13
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Richard Seddon, Sickert: An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Prints, exh. cat., Graves Art Gallery (Sheffield, 1957), no. 102
  • Lou Klepac, The Drawings of Walter Richard Sickert, exh. cat., Art Gallery of Western Australia (Perth, 1979), no. 5
  • Wendy Baron, Sickert Paintings and Drawings, Yale University Press (New Haven and London, 2006), no. 50.7
  • Lou Klepac, Sickert Drawings: The Painter's Eye, The Beagle Press (Sydney, 2022), pp. 62, 220, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Sickert: An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Prints, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, 01/01/1957 - 12/31/1957
  • The Drawings of Walter Richard Sickert, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 06/05/1979 - 07/01/1979; Brisbane Civic Art Gallery, Brisbane, 07/23/1979 - 08/26/1979; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Melbourne, 09/07/1979 - 10/21/1979

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