Walter Richard Sickert 1860-1942
Seated Woman, Mornington Crescent
Oil on canvas
51 x 40.5 cms
20 1/16 x 15 15/16 ins
20 1/16 x 15 15/16 ins
8842
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signed lower right: 'Sickert' The Mornington Crescent and Granby Street titles are mutually exclusive. Sickert's studio at Mornington Crescent was at no.6, within a terrace, not, as often published, on...
signed lower right: 'Sickert'
The Mornington Crescent and Granby Street titles are mutually exclusive. Sickert's studio at Mornington Crescent was at no.6, within a terrace, not, as often published, on the corner of Granby Street. Granby Street and mornington Crescent do not share a corner. On the contrary, Sickert's studio at Granby Street was on the corner of Granby Road (it's official address was 'Wellington House Academy'). Sickert's inscription on drawing 353.I strongly favours the Mornington Crescent location, as does the pattern of the ironwork balcony outside the window in the painting, which echoes that depicted in girl at a window [337]. Sickert use his studios as if they were stage sets, shifting the furniture around to create a variety of settings. Here the tall windows on the first floor of Mornington Crescent are not obscured by furniture.
The Mornington Crescent and Granby Street titles are mutually exclusive. Sickert's studio at Mornington Crescent was at no.6, within a terrace, not, as often published, on the corner of Granby Street. Granby Street and mornington Crescent do not share a corner. On the contrary, Sickert's studio at Granby Street was on the corner of Granby Road (it's official address was 'Wellington House Academy'). Sickert's inscription on drawing 353.I strongly favours the Mornington Crescent location, as does the pattern of the ironwork balcony outside the window in the painting, which echoes that depicted in girl at a window [337]. Sickert use his studios as if they were stage sets, shifting the furniture around to create a variety of settings. Here the tall windows on the first floor of Mornington Crescent are not obscured by furniture.
Provenance
Given by the artist to Sylvia Gosse; Dr.RobertEmmons; Agnews : Roland, Browse&Delbanco 1945; E. Michael
Behrens 1947; his sale Christies, London, 8 June 1990 (207);
private collection; Sothebys, London, 3 December 1998 (50);The
Fine Art Society 2000; private collection
Exhibitions
National Gallery 1941 (89) as Mornington Crescent lent by Emmons;Agnew 1947 (48) as Granby Street;
Edinburgh 1953 (29) lent by Behrens;
ACGB 1960 (116);
B&D 1981 (18) repr.;
B&D 1992 (55);
FAS 2000 (14) col.repr.
Literature
Browse 1943, pl. 35;Rothenstein 1961, pl.7
Lilly 1971, pl.37
Baron, Wendy, Sickert. Paintings and Drawings, 2006, page 371-372, number 353 (illustrated in colour)