Signed in pen and black ink Rd. St. ARA (bottom left) and inscribed Wellington House Academy (right).
Literature: Baron 2006, p. 376, no. 359.2 (as Standing Nude).
Provenance: Sale; Christie's, London, 17 November 1978, lot 16
Gore Andrews
Sale; Christie's, London, 6 November 1981, lot 47
With Browse & Darby, London, 1985
Sale; Sotheby's, London, 11 October 1989, lot 143
Private Collection, U.K.
Sale; Bonhams, London, 12 May 2020, lot 166
Exhibitions: London, Browse & Darby, British & French, Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture, 1870-1950, 25 June-27 July 1985, no. 47
As handwritten by Sickert himself, the interior where the nude is standing is in the artist’s studio at 247 Hampstead Road in London. The studio was named after the Wellington House Academy, a 19th century school which was once housed there, and which Charles Dickens attended as a teenager between 1825 and 1827 [1]. Wellington House Academy was the set of several works by Sickert, including the study included in our exhibition, that features exactly the same iron bed. According to Wendy Baron, Sally is the model who posed for the drawing (Baron 2006 359.2).
£ 4,200.-
[1] Claire Tomalin, Charles Dickens. A life, London 2012, pp. 27-31.