2009.90.31: Portrait of Thérèse Lessore, Venezia

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2009.90.31

People

Walter Sickert, British (Munich, Germany 1860 - 1942 Bathampton, Somerset, England)

Title

Portrait of Thérèse Lessore, Venezia

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1928

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/55319

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

76.2 x 66.04 cm (30 x 26 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: lower right: Rd St A.R.A.
• inscription: Inscribed lower left: Venezia

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Dudley Wallace, sold; [through Christie's, 17 July, 1959 lot 67; to [Arthur Tooth and Sons Ltd, London]; The Hon. William Wallace, by inheritance; to his widow, sold; [through Chrisite's, 8 November 1990 lot 77]; to Fine Arts Society; Richard Salmon, sold; [through Phillips, 17 November 1998 lot 11]; to 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

2009.90.31

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Wendy Baron, Sickert, Phaidon (London, England, 1973)
• Richard Morphet and Frank Auerbach, Late Sickert: Paintings 1927 to 1942, Arts Council of Great Britain, London (London, England, 1981)
• Wendy Baron and Richard Shone, Sickert: Paintings, exh. cat., Yale University Press (New Haven and London, 1992), p. 49 / f. 60
• Wendy Baron, Sickert Paintings and Drawings, Yale University Press (New Haven and London, 2006), p. 524, fig. 693

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