Walter Richard Sickert
1860 Munich – 1942 Bath
The New Tie, 1922
Etching. Size of plate: 27.7 x 17.6 cm. Size of sheet: 40 x 26.2 cm.
Signed in pencil below the plate (right). Signed, dated and titled in
the plate Sickert 1922 (bottom left, the last two figures in reverse) and The new tie (bottom right).
Watermark: Hand of Pope.
Literature: Bromberg 201, I/II.
Provenance: with Ernest Brown & Phillips Ltd, London.
Through an open door, we see a man standing in front of a mirrored wardrobe; he is the same figure as in the etching L'Armoire à Glace. According to Bromberg, the two settings were based on the same drawing (Bromberg 2000, p. 254).
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