The European contribution to the Armory Show was overall Franco-centric and very
few artists from other European countries were represented. This is certainly true of
the English works included in the show; Walt Kuhn and Arthur B. Davies apparently
felt English artworks, like those of the Germans, were derivative of the French.
The First and Second Grafton Shows of 1910 and 1912 in London were, like the
contemporaneous Sonderbund in Cologne, the first major, comprehensive public
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WALTER SICKERT
Bath, Pulteney Bridge
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Etching and engraving, 1916-18. 150x173 mm; 6x6
3
/
4
inches, full margins.Third state (of 3).
Signed in pencil, lower right. Ex-collection P&D Colnaghi, London, with their stock
number in pencil, lower right; and Thomas Agnew & Sons, London.A superb impression
of this very scarce print, with strong contrasts and crisp, partially inky plate edges.
According to Bromberg, P&D Colnaghi, London,“received six impressions in all of the first,
second and third state from the artist on a sale-or-return basis in 1919.”The edition was
extremely small and we have not found another impression at auction in the past 25 years.
Bromberg 180.
[1,200/1,800]
