Walter Richard Sickert [1860-1942] after John Gilbert 'The River'; circa 1930/1931, an 'Echo' after Sir John Gilbert :-signed and inscribed bottom left 'Sickert after Gilbert' stencilled on stretcher 781 NE and inscribed 'The River' in black marker on reverseoil on canvas, 63 x 57cm.*Notes ExhibitedThe London Group 1931, 'The River'.Venice 1932, 'Il Fiume'.Redfern Gallery, date unknown.Rowland Browse & Delbanco,1961.Rowley Gallery.*ProvenanceSothebys 1961, sold as 'The Paddle Steamer', Collection Dr Cyrax.Christies 1963, sold as 'The River Boat'.Sidney Gilliat, film producer/ director, circa 1969, thence by family descent.* Notes Literature.Illustrated English Painting Today by William Gaunt The Studio 1937.Sickert. Paintings and Drawings by Wendy Baron OBE, FSA. No. 618 Page 507 Yale University Press 2006.This is an 'Echo', a genre of painting invented by Sickert 1927-28. The 'Echoes' are enlarged transcriptions on canvas, in full, modelled, atmospheric colour, of Victorian black and white illustrations. The group of approximately 100 Echoes painted by Sickert throughout the 1930s were widely exhibited, first at the Savile Gallery, and then chiefly at the Leicester Galleries and the Beaux Arts Gallery. They were a commercial success. As Sickert joked: 'It's such a good arrangement; Cruikshank and Gilbert do all the work, and I get all the money!' They have divided opinion since their execution, some critics and historians of Sickert find them a sad aberration of his old age, while others admire both the quality of their handling, design and colour, and the sheer audacity of their conception. This particular Echo is after one of Sickert's avowed heroes, Sir John Gilbert (whose portrait Sickert drew in 1893 for publication in the Pall Mall Budget). It was painted c.1930-31, exhibited with the London Group in 1931 as The River, and shown in Venice in 1932 at the 18th Biennale as Il Fiume, and has had a number of titles: The Pleasure Boat when sold at Sotheby's on 12 July 1961, lot 166; The Paddle Steamer when in the collection of Dr James Cyriax; and The River Boat when it was sold from Mrs Beryl Joyce's sale at Christie's, 5 July 1963, lot 13. Between owners, over its life, it has been with the Redfern Gallery, with Roland, Browse & Delbanco (1961), and The Rowley Gallery. William Gaunt included and illustrated the painting in his essay 'English Painting Today' in The Studio, June 1937, p.296. It is no.618, p.507, Sickert. Paintings and Drawings, by Dr Wendy Baron, Yale University Press, 2006.We are grateful to Dr. Wendy Baron OBE, FSA for assisting in the cataloguing of this lot.
Walter Richard Sickert [1860-1942] after John Gilbert 'The River'; circa 1930/1931, an 'Echo' after Sir John Gilbert :-signed and inscribed bottom left 'Sickert after Gilbert' stencilled on stretcher 781 NE and inscribed 'The River' in black marker on reverseoil on canvas, 63 x 57cm.*Notes ExhibitedThe London Group 1931, 'The River'.Venice 1932, 'Il Fiume'.Redfern Gallery, date unknown.Rowland Browse & Delbanco,1961.Rowley Gallery.*ProvenanceSothebys 1961, sold as 'The Paddle Steamer', Collection Dr Cyrax.Christies 1963, sold as 'The River Boat'.Sidney Gilliat, film producer/ director, circa 1969, thence by family descent.* Notes Literature.Illustrated English Painting Today by William Gaunt The Studio 1937.Sickert. Paintings and Drawings by Wendy Baron OBE, FSA. No. 618 Page 507 Yale University Press 2006.This is an 'Echo', a genre of painting invented by Sickert 1927-28. The 'Echoes' are enlarged transcriptions on canvas, in full, modelled, atmospheric colour, of Victorian black and white illustrations. The group of approximately 100 Echoes painted by Sickert throughout the 1930s were widely exhibited, first at the Savile Gallery, and then chiefly at the Leicester Galleries and the Beaux Arts Gallery. They were a commercial success. As Sickert joked: 'It's such a good arrangement; Cruikshank and Gilbert do all the work, and I get all the money!' They have divided opinion since their execution, some critics and historians of Sickert find them a sad aberration of his old age, while others admire both the quality of their handling, design and colour, and the sheer audacity of their conception. This particular Echo is after one of Sickert's avowed heroes, Sir John Gilbert (whose portrait Sickert drew in 1893 for publication in the Pall Mall Budget). It was painted c.1930-31, exhibited with the London Group in 1931 as The River, and shown in Venice in 1932 at the 18th Biennale as Il Fiume, and has had a number of titles: The Pleasure Boat when sold at Sotheby's on 12 July 1961, lot 166; The Paddle Steamer when in the collection of Dr James Cyriax; and The River Boat when it was sold from Mrs Beryl Joyce's sale at Christie's, 5 July 1963, lot 13. Between owners, over its life, it has been with the Redfern Gallery, with Roland, Browse & Delbanco (1961), and The Rowley Gallery. William Gaunt included and illustrated the painting in his essay 'English Painting Today' in The Studio, June 1937, p.296. It is no.618, p.507, Sickert. Paintings and Drawings, by Dr Wendy Baron, Yale University Press, 2006.We are grateful to Dr. Wendy Baron OBE, FSA for assisting in the cataloguing of this lot.
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