Walter Sickert
Portrait of Rear Admiral Lumsden, C.I.E., C.V.O., 1927-28
Oil on canvas
245 x 91.5 cm
96 1/2 x 36 1/8 in
96 1/2 x 36 1/8 in
Provenance
Savile Gallery, London, 1929Mark Oliver, London
Thomas Agnew & Sons, London
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Dec. 1964
At Sotheby's, London, 21 Nov. 2017, lot 110
Private Collection
Exhibitions
1928, London, Royal Academy of Arts, The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, 7 May - 11 Aug. 1928, cat. no. 6521931, Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Thirtieth Annual International Exhibition of Paintings, 10 March – 21 April 1931, cat. no. 257
1933, London, Thomas Agnew & Sons, Retrospective Exhibition of Pictures by Walter Sickert, Nov. - Dec. 1933, cat. no. 43
1935, Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, Autumn Exhibition, 10 Oct. 1935 - 4 Jan. 1936, cat. no. 86
1951, Manchester, Manchester City Art Gallery and London, New Burlington Galleries, Exhibition of British Painting 1925-1950: Second Anthology, 20 June - 28 July 1951 and 4 Aug. - 16 Sept. 1951, cat. no. 113
1960, London, Thomas Agnew & Sons, Sickert: Centenary Exhibition of Pictures from Private Collections, 15 March - 14 April 1960, cat. no. 51
1960, London, Tate Gallery; Southampton, Southampton City Art Gallery; and Bradford, Bradford City Art Gallery Sickert: Paintings and Drawings, 16 May - 19 June; 2 - 24 July; and 30 July - 20 Aug. 1960, cat. no. 163
1972, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 17 Aug. 1972 - 9 July 1973 (on loan from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts)
1981, London, Hayward Gallery; Norwich, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts; and Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Late Sickert: Paintings 1927 to 1942, 18 Nov. 1981 - 31 Jan. 1982; 2 March - 4 April 1982; and 12 April - 22 May 1982, cat. no. 10, p. 93 (col. illus. back cover)
2021, London, Piano Nobile, Sickert: The Theatre of Life, 24 Sept. - 17 Dec. 2021, cat. no. 28
Literature
Thirtieth Annual International Exhibition of Paintings, exh. cat., Carnegie Institute, 1931 (illus.)Robert Emmons, The Life and Opinions of Walter Richard Sickert, Faber & Faber, 1941, pp. 210 and 212
'Sickert's in Private Collections', Connoisseur, vol. 145 (April 1960), p. 205 (illus.)
Lillian Browse, Walter Sickert, Rupert-Hart Davis, 1960, p. 41
Denys Sutton, 'The Paradoxes of W. R. Sickert' in L.G.G. Ramsey, Connoisseur Year Book, National Magazine Co., 1961, pp. 52-56
'Important Portrait in Minneapolis', Today's Art, 1 Feb. 1965, p. 16
Marie-Louise d'Otrange Mastai, 'The Connoisseur in America', Connoisseur, vol. 158 (March 1965), p. 210 (illus.)
Wendy Dimson, 'A Sickert Portrait of an Admiral - Acquisitions of Works of Art by Museums and Galleries', Burlington Magazine Supplement, vol. 107, no. 742 (Jan. 1965), pp. 52-54 (illus.)
Catalogue of European Paintings in The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1970, cat. no. 41, pp. 84-85 (illus.)
Wendy Baron, Walter Sickert, Phaidon, 1973, under cat. no. 402, pp. 173-174 and 380, fig. 277 (illus.)
Richard Shone, Walter Sickert, Phaidon, 1988, p. 114
Wendy Baron and Richard Shone, Sickert Paintings, exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts, 1992, p. 51, fig. 63 (illus.)
Wendy Baron, Walter Sickert: Paintings and Drawings, Yale University Press, 2006, cat. no. 686, pp. 521-522 (illus.)
Wendy Baron, Luke Farey and Richard Shone, Sickert: The Theatre of Life, exh. cat., Piano Nobile Publications, 2021, cat. no 28, pp. 110-111 (col. illus.)
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