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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2009.90.38
People
Walter Sickert, British (Munich, Germany 1860 - 1942 Bathampton, Somerset, England)
Title
Le Marché aux Bestiaux, Dieppe
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1886
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/5211

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
23.2 x 36.9 cm (9 1/8 x 14 1/2 in.)
framed: 38.4 x 52 x 4.5 cm (15 1/8 x 20 1/2 x 1 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: Sickert
  • inscription: back of panel, black pencil, handwritten: Le Marché [aux Bestiaux]
  • label: back of panel, black ink, paper, printed: no. 22784, July 2, 2001
  • label: back of panel, black ink, paper, printed: no. 4971, October 1971
  • label: back of panel, blue ink, handwritten: 4971 / Sickert
  • label: back of panel, black ink, paper, printed: no. 8861, Spink Leger [Hamish Dewar is a London conservator/framer]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Walter Sickert, Painted,c. 1886, sold; at Royal Society of British Artists, 1888. [Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London, 1960]. Mr. and Mrs. Will Richeson, California, 1971. [The Fine Art Society, London. Label suggests owned [or exhibited?] c. 1971
Martin Cahn (Co-owned bySaul Leiter, New York)? [The Fine Art Society, London] sold; to Patricia Cornwell, 2001, gift; to Harvard Art Museum, 2009.

Footnotes:
1888, unidentified buyer paid £31.10s
Mr/Mrs. Richeson, Martin Cahn, Saul Leiter information from Fine Art Society labels.

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
2009.90.38
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Lillian Browse, Sickert, Rupert Hart-Davis (London, 1960), no. 2, repr. in b/w
  • Wendy Baron, Sickert, Phaidon (London, England, 1973), p. 158 as no. 34, repr. in b/w

Exhibition History

  • [Walter and Bernard Sickert Exhibition], Dutch Gallery, London, 01/01/1895 - 12/31/1895

Verification Level

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