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Walter Richard Sickert A.R.A. (British, 1860-1942) Venetian Woman 40.5 x 33 cm. (16 x 13 in.) image 1
Walter Richard Sickert A.R.A. (British, 1860-1942) Venetian Woman 40.5 x 33 cm. (16 x 13 in.) image 2
Walter Richard Sickert A.R.A. (British, 1860-1942) Venetian Woman 40.5 x 33 cm. (16 x 13 in.) image 3
Lot 51

Walter Richard Sickert A.R.A.
(British, 1860-1942)
Venetian Woman 40.5 x 33 cm. (16 x 13 in.)

19 June 2024, 15:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Walter Richard Sickert A.R.A. (British, 1860-1942)

Venetian Woman
signed 'Sickert' (lower left)
oil on canvas
40.5 x 33 cm. (16 x 13 in.)

Footnotes

Provenance
Robin Craig Guthrie, thence by family descent
Private Collection, U.K.

Complete details of the identity of the sitter spontaneously captured in the present work are not known, but it is known that she was Venetian. The city meant much to Sickert. He lived and painted there in 1895, 1896, 1900, 1901 and 1903-4. One wife left him in Venice and he (unsuccessfully) wooed another. He not only painted its great and lesser sites, but first developed his characteristic interiors with figures there, posing local models in his rooms at Calle dei Frati. His command of Italian - and the Venetian dialect - was fluent. He visited the city for the last time in December 1929, perhaps in advance of the one-man showing of his work in the British Section at the Biennale in 1930 (he had shown a few works at the Venice Biennale in 1903 and 1912, and was to show a few more in 1932 and 1936).

The present work was first owned by the artist Robin Craig Guthrie RSPP (1902-1971). According to Guthrie's son Professor David Maltby Guthrie, his father knew Sickert as a leading figure in the artistic circles of the Belsize Park and Camden Town area in which he also moved.

Guthrie was primarily a portrait painter, though he also produced numerous landscapes particularly of the Sussex countryside where he grew up. He taught for a while at the Royal College of Art and his notable works include The Sermon on the Mount (Tate Collection) a portrait in oils of the actor Moira Shearer (National Portrait Gallery) and a panoramic painting of The Queen reviewing the Tank Regiment (the Tank Museum).

We are grateful to Dr Wendy Baron for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.

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