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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2009.90.1
People
Walter Sickert, British (Munich, Germany 1860 - 1942 Bathampton, Somerset, England)
Title
Cirque Medrano
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1906-1907
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/55153

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk, black ink, white and orange chalk, squared in red ink, on brown wove paper
Dimensions
30.5 x 24.7 cm (12 x 9 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r., red ink: Sickert
  • inscription: lower left, graphite, in artist's hand: Cirque Medrano (written over red ink squaring)
  • label: from removed backing board: The Fine Art Society PLC / 148 New Bond Street London W1S 2JT / June 2001 19592 / Walter Richard Sickert RA / 1860-1942 / Cirque Medrano, circa 1906 / Exhibited: London, The Fine Art Society Walter Sickert, 2000 (18)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Phillips, London, May 10, 1994, lot 98, repr.]. Johnnie Shand-Kydd, sold Feb. 17, 2000; to [The Fine Art Society, London] sold; to Patricia Cornwell, June 2001, 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
2009.90.1
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Sickert with an Accent on the Theatre, Issue 4683, 1992, no. 23
  • Walter Sickert: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints, exh. cat., The Fine Art Society (London, 2000), no. 18, repr.
  • Wendy Baron, Sickert Paintings and Drawings, Yale University Press (New Haven and London, 2006), no. 294

Exhibition History

  • Walter Sickert with an Accent on the Theatre, Browse & Darby, London, 11/26/1992 - 12/23/1992
  • Walter Sickert: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints, The Fine Art Society, London, 05/08/2000 - 06/15/2000

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