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

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Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1860-1942)
Girl playing a piano
inscribed 'A Son père - Souvenir de 1914' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
30 x 22½ in. (76.2 x 57.2 cm.)
Painted in 1914.

with Beaux Arts Gallery, London.
with Leicester Galleries, London.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 8 July 1955, lot 115, where purchased by the present owner.

Specialist note

Wendy Baron comments on the present work, 'A camaïeu preparation in two colours (pinky browns and blues) of a woman in profile at a piano which could be a later reminiscence of the Tavernier project' (see W. Baron, loc. cit.). The sitter of some piano pictures of this period is Emily Powell, also known as 'Chicken'; the present work does not depict Chicken, but possibly Mlle Tavernier.