LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

20.47 in. (52.00 cm.) (height) by 24.21 in. (61.50 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

possibly Paris, Bernheim-Jeune, 1907. Glasgow, Institute of Fine Arts, Sickert, 1949, catalogue not traced. London, Agnew’s, Walter Richard Sickert, Centenary Exhibition, 1960, no. 13, as ‘The Old Bedford’. Johannesburg, Adler Fielding Galleries, Walter Richard Sickert 1860-1942, August 1965, no. O15. New York, Hirschl & Adler, Walter R. Sickert 1860-1942, April - May 1967, no. 13, as ‘Theatre Interior- La Gaite Rochechouart’. Sydney, David Jones’ Art Gallery, Walter Richard Sickert 1860-1942, May - June 1968, no. 21. Sydney, David Jones’ Art Gallery, Walter Richard Sickert 1860-1942: Paintings and Drawings from Public and Private Collections in Australia, August 1980, no. 18. New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, British Modernist Art, 1905-1930, November 1987 - January 1988, no. 35. London, Spink-Leger, Twentieth Century British Art: From Sickert to Hirst, April 1998, no. 1.

Literature:

F. Rutter, The Studio, Vol. 100, November 1930, p. 324, illustrated. Exhibition catalogue, Walter R. Sickert 1860-1942, New York, Hirschl & Adler, 1967, no. 13, as ‘Old Bedford’, illustrated. W. Baron, Sickert, London, 1973, pp. 93-99, 342, no. 235. Apollo, August 1974, illustrated. Exhibition catalogue, British Modernist Art, 1905-1930, New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1987, no. 35, p. 42, illustrated. Exhibition catalogue, Twentieth Century British Art: From Sickert to Hirst, London, Spink-Leger, 1998, n.p., no. 1, illustrated, as ‘L’ Eldorado, Paris’. W. Baron, Sickert Paintings and Drawings, New Haven and London, 2006, pp. 336-337, no. 291.1, illustrated.

Provenance:

Arthur Clifton of the Carfax Gallery, London; his widow, Mrs Madeline Clifton. with Agnew’s, London, 1964. with Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London, 1968. J. C. King, his sale; Sotheby’s, London, 18 July 1973, lot 25. with Agnew’s, London, 1974. with David Jones’ Art Gallery, Sydney, 1980. Robert Haines, his sale; Christie’s, London, 8 November, 1985, lot 142. Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 2 May 1990, lot 45. with Fine Art Society, London. Private collection, USA. Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s London, 18 June 1997, lot 61. with Spink-Leger, London, where purchased by the present owner, April 1999.