La Café Suisse, sous les Arcades, Dieppe

Details

Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1860-1942)
La Café Suisse, sous les Arcades, Dieppe
inscribed 'Le Café Suisse' (lower left), inscribed indistinctly and signed 'To Suzette .../W Sickert' (lower right)
pen, black ink, watercolour and bodycolour
9¾ x 6 in. (24.7 x 15.2 cm.)
Executed circa 1914

Provenance

Anon. sale; Christie's London, 19 October 1979, lot 25, where purchased by the present owner.

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Please note the additional information for this lot:

The inscription is a dedication to Suzette Lemaire, a close friend of the artist. The watercolour dates from circa 1900, not circa 1914 as stated in the catalogue text. We are grateful to Dr Wendy Baron for this additional information.

Lot Essay

The present watercolour is one of a number of studies for the painting of this subject. In two letters to Miss Sands written shortly after his arrival in Dieppe in 1914, Sickert referred to painting this subject, 'I have bought a note-book and done some studies already for the café-arcade picture'; and 'I shall probably come into Dieppe every Saturday. To study my arcade café picture (see W. Baron, Sickert, London, 1973, p. 364, no. 347).

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