WALTER RICHARD SICKERT (BRITISH 1860-1942) THE GHETTO, VENICE Oil on panel Signed (verso) 14 x 23.5cm (5½ x 9¼ in.)Painted circa 1896.Provenance: The Redfern Gallery Ltd., London (by 1941) Private Collection, Mrs. Dunne (acquired from the above in 1941) Christie's, London, 22 November 2002, lot 12, where purchased by Robert Kime Exhibited: (Probably) London, Leicester Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Richard Sickert, June 1929, no. 113Literature: Wendy Baron, Sickert Paintings and Drawings, New Haven & London, 2006, p. 199, no. 79.1 According to Wendy Baron's book on the artist, the line of tenement houses lining the canal is reminiscent of the background of a portrait of Israel Zangwill (ibid. no. 79), painted by Walter Sickert in 1896-98. Zangwill was a Zionist Jewish leader and novelist and friend of Sickert's first wife, Ellen Cobden. Baron asserts that Zangwill was in Venice in April 1896 and saw much of the Sickerts.
WALTER RICHARD SICKERT (BRITISH 1860-1942) THE GHETTO, VENICE Oil on panel Signed (verso) 14 x 23.5cm (5½ x 9¼ in.)Painted circa 1896.Provenance: The Redfern Gallery Ltd., London (by 1941) Private Collection, Mrs. Dunne (acquired from the above in 1941) Christie's, London, 22 November 2002, lot 12, where purchased by Robert Kime Exhibited: (Probably) London, Leicester Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Richard Sickert, June 1929, no. 113Literature: Wendy Baron, Sickert Paintings and Drawings, New Haven & London, 2006, p. 199, no. 79.1 According to Wendy Baron's book on the artist, the line of tenement houses lining the canal is reminiscent of the background of a portrait of Israel Zangwill (ibid. no. 79), painted by Walter Sickert in 1896-98. Zangwill was a Zionist Jewish leader and novelist and friend of Sickert's first wife, Ellen Cobden. Baron asserts that Zangwill was in Venice in April 1896 and saw much of the Sickerts.
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