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Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1860-1942)

Study for Sinn Fein

Details
Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1860-1942)
Study for Sinn Fein
signed 'Sickert' (lower right) and inscribed 'Study for Sinn Fein' (lower centre)
pencil, ink and wash
10½ x 8 in. (26.7 x 20.4 cm.)
Provenance
W.H. Stephenson, Esq., Southport.
with Agnews, London.
Literature
W. Baron, Sickert Paintings and Drawings, New Haven and London, 2006, p. 433, pl. 458.1, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, National Gallery, British Painting Since Whistler, 1940, no. 584.
Southport, Atkinson Art Gallery, Festival Exhibition of Local Art Treasures, June - September 1951, no. 251.
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Lot Essay

Wendy Baron writes 'Sickert studied this two-figure composition from life, rather than from a photograph. This suggests that the overtly political and contemporary title was borrowed ... The revolutionary Sinn Feiner is depicted as a sad and much diminished figure, cowed by the authority of his large and dominant mother; perhaps he is a metaphor for Ireland, she for Great Britain, the motherland' (W. Baron, Sickert Paintings and Drawings, New Haven and London, 2006, p. 433).

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