Nov 05, 2013 - Sale 2329

Sale 2329 - Lot 136

Price Realized: $ 1,188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
WALTER SICKERT
Queen's Palace of Varieties, Poplar.

Etching, 1885. 62x99 mm; 2 1/2x3 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.