India Ross
Associate Specialist
Lot 195
Walter Richard Sickert A.R.A.(British, 1860-1942)The Orchestra. The London, Shoreditch
Ending from 26 November 2025, 12:00 GMT
Online, London, Knightsbridge£2,500 - £3,000
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Catherine King
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Walter Richard Sickert A.R.A. (British, 1860-1942)
The Orchestra. The London, Shoreditch
inscribed 'None o them old tea garden tricks' (lower centre), also indistinctly inscribed 'Extremely!/Wot a chick!/Mrs' (lower right); further signed and inscribed 'W Sickert/Bell/20 Fitzroy Street/bell-Lessore' (on sheet verso)
chalk on paper
18.5 x 35cm (7 5/16 x 13 3/4in).
Executed circa 1920
inscribed 'None o them old tea garden tricks' (lower centre), also indistinctly inscribed 'Extremely!/Wot a chick!/Mrs' (lower right); further signed and inscribed 'W Sickert/Bell/20 Fitzroy Street/bell-Lessore' (on sheet verso)
chalk on paper
18.5 x 35cm (7 5/16 x 13 3/4in).
Executed circa 1920
Footnotes
Provenance
With The Leicester Galleries, London, where acquired by
Mr Edward Le Bas, July 1946
Sale; Christie's, London, 10 May 1974, lot 139 (as 'The London' at Shoreditch)
Sale; Christie's, London, 11 June 1976, lot 30
The Estate of Vince Hill C.B.E.
Exhibited
London, The Leicester Galleries, Artists of Fame and Promise, July 1946, no. 5, (as Music Hall Orchestra)
London, The Royal Academy of Arts, 1963, no. 194 (as Music Hall Orchestra)
Literature
L. Browse, Sickert, Hart-Davis, London, 1960, pl. 4a, illustrated
R. Bromberg, Walter Sickert: Prints, A Catalogue Raisonné, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2000, fig. 190a, illustrated
W. Baron, Sickert, Paintings and Drawings, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2006, p. 491, no. 576.1