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WALTER SICKERT
Queen’s Palace of Varieties, Poplar
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Etching, 1885. 62x99 mm; 2
1
/
2
x3
7
/
8
inches. Annotated in pencil, on the original mat. Ex-
collection Mrs. George Swinton, London;The Leicester Galleries, London; and Thomas
Agnew & Sons, London, with the original label. A superb impression of this exceedingly
scarce proof.
This impression cited by Bromberg (listed as “present whereabouts unknown”).
Exhibited at Thomas Agnew & Sons, London,“Master and Pupil,”March, 1972, catalogue
number 57.
According to Bromberg, “Several men and a woman who are part of an East End music
hall audience are drawn in profile, facing right.The men wear mainly bowler hats and the
woman wears a tall hat.” Bromberg 73.
[1,000/1,500]
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AUGUSTUS JOHN
Portrait of the Artist:Tête Farouche
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Etching and drypoint printed in black on cream wove paper in the manner of a monotype,
1906. 215x170 mm; 8
1
/
2
x6
3
/
4
inches, full margins. Signed, titled and numbered 3/25 in
pencil, lower margin. Ex-collection P&D Colnaghi, London, with their stock number in
pencil, lower right recto; and Chenil, blind stamp lower left recto (not in Lugt).A brilliant,
richly-inked and luminous, tonal impression of this very scarce etching. Dodgson 10.
[2,500/3,500]
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