
Mary Gatenby
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£3,000 - £5,000
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Provenance
The Artist, from whom acquired by the family of the present owner, and thence by descent
Private Collection, U.K.
Exhibited
London, Savile Gallery, An Exhibition of Paintings by W.R. Sickert, A.R.A., February 1928, no. 14
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Peinture Anglaise Moderne: Richard Sickert, A.R.A., 23 February-17 March 1929, no. 23
London, Hayward Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain, Late Sickert: Paintings 1927- 1942, 18 November 1981-31 January 1982, no. 59, with tour to Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton
Literature
W. Baron, Sickert, Phaidon Press, London, 1973, no. 429
W. Baron, Sickert, Paintings and Drawings, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2006, no. 590, p. 502, illustrated
The present lot was copied from the lid of a pomade pot, showing a Scottish Highlander's farewell to his family as he leaves for battle. The title makes clear the battle was to protect them.
We are grateful to Wendy Baron for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.