Signed and
dedicated A. M. Lebas/reconnaissance sincère/W. Sickert (lower right).
Literature: Baron 2006, no. 155.1, illustrated p. 259.
Provenance: A gift from the artist to M. Lebas;
with Leicester Galleries, London,
A.W. Brickell, by 1941;
Anonymous sale; Christie’s 22 November 1994, lot 112
Collection of Edgar Astaire;
Christie’s Sale, Modern British and Irish Art Day Sale, London, 26th June 2015 lot 120
Exhibitions: London, Leicester galleries, Retrospective Exhibitions of Paintings and Drawings by Richard Sickert A.R.A., P.R.B.A., June 1929, no. 48.;
Paris, Galerie Cardo, Walter R. Sickert, November - December 1930, no. 1
London, National Gallery, Sickert, August-December 1941, no. 23
Edinburgh, Scottish Committee of the Arts Council, Royal Scottish Academy, An exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Walter Sickert, January 1953, no. 81
This "sharply accented sketch" represents the gardens of the Casino Mauresque in Dieppe (Baron, p. 259). The fashionable casino was "a well-known landmark and an important venue for the Dieppe ‘season’ comprising a large complex of facilities which included a café-restaurant, hot baths, extensive lawns and flower gardens, a terrace overlooking the beach, bathing huts and a vast hall for concerts, plays and dances." [1]
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[1] Nicola Moorby, ‘Baccarat – The Fur Cape 1920 by Walter Richard Sickert’, catalogue entry, May 2005, in Helena Bonett, Ysanne Holt, Jennifer Mundy (eds.), The Camden Town Group in Context, Tate Research Publication, May 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/camden-town-group/walter-richard-sickert-baccarat-the-fur-cape-r1129512.