Walter Richard Sickert

1860 – 1942

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Venice, The Horses of St.Mark’s (4th version) 1915

Original etching.

Previously unrecorded proof state between Bromberg’s first and second states
– before reduction of the plate and before all letters.

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Venice, The Lion of St. Mark 1915

Original etching.

Beautiful impression with subtle tonal variation. A very fine impression in the completed state of the plate, as issued by Carfax & Co. for the only published edition.

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The Old Middlesex (Small plate) 1914

Original etching.

Unusually fine impression of this important etched work, as published by the Carfax Gallery in 1915 in a proposed edition of 100 impressions.

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Walter Sickert is widely considered to be the greatest of the British Impressionists. By the time he embarked on the subject of The Old Middlesex in c.1906-7, he had broken away entirely from Whistler’s style and influence and had begun to produce works which explored the treatment of light in an entirely novel way. In his etchings he aimed to transform the tonal contrasts of his paintings and drawings into abstract patterns of light and shade. [more]