Walter Richard Sickert A.R.A. (British, 1860-1942) Chagford Churchyard 15 x 24 cm. (6 x 9 1/2 in.)
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Walter Richard Sickert A.R.A. (British, 1860-1942)
Chagford Churchyard
signed 'Sickert.' (lower left)
oil on panel
15 x 24 cm. (6 x 9 1/2 in.)
Sold for £7,800 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • PROVENANCE:
    With Roland, Browse & Delbanco, 1963
    Sale; Sotheby's, 10 June 1981, lot 101
    With The Fine Art Society, London, May 1983
    Private Collection, U.K.

    EXHIBITED:
    London, Roland, Browse & Delbanco, Sickert, April - May 1963, no.47

    LITERATURE:
    Wendy Baron, Sickert, London, 1973, cat.369
    Wendy Baron, Sickert, Paintings and Drawings, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2006, cat.no.480.3, p.446

    Sickert spent the summer of 1916 in Chagford, Devon. The churchyard there became one of Sickert's favorite subjects to depict and several sketches, studies and oils were produced of the churchyard with it's gravestones silhouetted against the Devonshire countryside. The present lot is a study for an oil, listed in Wendy Baron's catalogue raisonée as 480.2, and now resides in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, having been bequeathed by Lillian Browse CBE.

Category: Fine Art / Modern British and Irish Art

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