Walter Richard Sickert ARA,
British 1860-1942-
Mackerel;
oil on canvasboard, signed, 45x14.7cm
Provenance: with Durand-Ruel et Fils, Paris, 1904; with Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London, 1947 (bears label to the reverse of the frame); Pamela Harris; Sotheby"s, 15 May 1985, lot 77; Phillips London, 7 March 2000, lot 22; Bonham"s London, 30 May 2012, lot 37
Exhibited: probably Paris, Durand-Ruel et Fils, Société Nouvelle des Peintres et Sculpteurs, February 1903, no.141 or 142 (as Bodegone); Paris, Bernheim Jeune, "Walter Sickert", 1-10 June 1904, no.94, on loan from Durand-Ruel et Fils; London, Rowland, Browse & Delbanco, "Sickert. Forty of his Finest Paintings", 20 June-4 August 1951, no.19, where lent by Miss Pamela Harris; Edinburgh, Scottish Committee of the Arts Council, Diploma Galleries of the Royal Scottish Academy, "An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Walter Sickert", January 1953, no.100 (as Two Mackerel and a Herring)
Literature: Wendy Baron, "Sickert, Paintings and Drawings", Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2006, listed under cat. no. 426 (a related painting), p.414