Footnotes

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. 8
London, R.E.A. Wilson, Paintings and Drawings by Richard Sickert, A.R.A., March-April 1933, no. 10
Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, The Sixty-First Autumn Exhibition. Collective Exhibit of the Work of Richard Sickert, A.R.E., 10 October 1935-4 January 1936, no. 99
London, Adams Gallery, Sickert and the Living French Painters, January-4 February 1937, no. 4
Edinburgh, Scottish Arts Council, Modern Art from Scottish Houses, 13 July-9 August 1969
London, Hayward Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain, Late Sickert: Paintings 1927- 1942, 18 November 1981-31 January 1982, no. 11, 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. 449
W. Baron, Sickert, Paintings and Drawings, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2006, no. 685, p. 521, illustrated

'The background to this mother and child group is Il Cannaregio in Venice, a quarter of the city which Sickert was to recall when away from Venice more often than any other. He perhaps worked from early drawings as well as from photographs. The mother and baby were painted from a photograph which [the owner] told me he remembered having seen. The choice of a Venetian back-drop to set off the bold silhouette of the figure group harks back to earlier works such as the portraits of Israel Zangwill and Mrs Swinton. The implications of the title ('my innards') remain opaque.' (W. Baron, Sickert, Paintings and Drawings, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2006, p. 521).

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