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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 17, 2014 | Bonhams | London | Modern British and Irish Art | 21 | $****** - ****** | Londra Benedetta |
paintings
50.8 x 45.7 cm (20 x 17.99 in)
oil on canvas
The Artist, by whom gifted to,Mrs. George Swinton, and by descent to,Brigadier A.H.C Swinton,
Thence by descent to the present owner,
Private Collection, U.K
Possibly Berlin, Grosse Berliner Kunst-Ausstellung, 1909,London, London Group, 1926, cat.no.29 (as The London Directory),London, National Gallery, Sickert, 1941, cat.no.51,London, Islington Public Libraries, Sickert Exhibition, 16 June-29 September 1951, cat.no.11Sickert used the evocative title Londra Benedetta for several prints and drawings, but it was especially apposite in the case of this unusual and complex interior. He explained the subject in a letter to the American painter Nan Hudson, written in late July or August 1907 just before he left for his annual summer visit to Dieppe: 'I have put a hansom <u>outside</u> in the stained glass window picture, & a London directory <u>inside</u> with yellow blue & red stripes for "commercial" "streets" & "trades" strips. Impossible to be more "London" than that. "Ce Londres que les Anglais appellent London".' A painting called 'Ce Londres que les Anglais appellent London' was sold in the auction of Sickert's work at the Hotel Drouot, Paris in 1909, but that was in horizontal, not upright, format. A painting called The London Directory was with the London Group in 1926 (29). The Yorkshire Post (5 June 1926) clarified its content in terms which suggest it was the present work: 'The book is shown lying on a table against a mullioned window, through which nothing is clearly visible'. However, the catalogue did not list the painting as being in private ownership. Fifteen years later, when the present painting was lent to the Sickert exhibition at the National Gallery, it was catalogued as a loan from Mrs Swinton
Wendy Baron, Sickert, Paintings & Drawings, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2006, p.350, cat.no.312 (ill.b&w)
