The Print Shop, Dieppe

Details

Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1860-1942)
The Print Shop, Dieppe
signed 'Sickert.' (lower left)
oil on board
9 x 7 in. (23 x 18 cm.)
Painted circa 1906.

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 22 June 1955, lot 133a.
Purchased from Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London, December 1955, and by descent.

Literature

W. Baron, Sickert, London, 1973, p. 351, under cat. 283.
W. Baron, Sickert Paintings and Drawings, New Haven and London, 2006, p. 344, no. 300.2.

Exhibited

London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Tate Gallery, Sickert. Paintings and Drawings, May - June 1960, no. 47: this exhibition travelled to Southampton, Art Gallery, July 1960; and Bradford, City Art Gallery, July - August 1960.

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Lot Essay

The subject of this painting is the antique, junk, or print shop on the corner of the Rue St Catherine near the Vieux Arcades in Dieppe. The work relates to another oil, The Antique Shop, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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