Walter Sickert
Chicken, 1914, c.
Oil on canvas
50.8 x 40.6 cm
20 x 16 in
20 x 16 in
Provenance
Edward le Bas, acquired by 1941Private Collection, by descent
Exhibitions
1941, London, National Gallery, Sickert, dates unknown, cat. no. 521942, Leeds, Temple Newsam, The Life Work of Walter Richard Sickert, 28 March - 31 May 1942, cat. no. 174
1942, London, Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts, Sickert, dates unknown, cat. no. 22
1957, Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery, Sickert: An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Prints, dates unknown, cat. no. 92
1960, London, Thomas Agnew & Sons, Sickert: Centenary Exhibition of Pictures from Private Collections, 15 March - 14 April 1960, cat. no. 77 (listed as 'Poule')
1960, London, Tate Gallery; Southampton, Southampton Art Gallery; and Bradford, Bradford City Art Gallery, Sickert: Paintings and Drawings, 18 May - 19 June; 2 -24 July; and 30 July - 20 Aug. 1960, cat. no. 125 (listed as 'Poule')
1963, London, Royal Academy of Arts, A Painter's Collection: An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture from the Collection of Edward Le Bas, 8 June - 7 July 1963, cat. no. 144
1978, London, Browse & Darby, Sickert: Paintings and Drawings, 13 April - 13 May 1978, cat. no. 8
1990, Bath, Victoria Art Gallery, From Beardsley to Beaverbrook: Portraits by Walter Richard Sickert, 19 May - 30 June 1990, cat. no. 28
1992, London, Royal Academy of Arts and Amsterdam, Vincent Van Gogh Museum, Sickert Paintings, 20 Nov. 1992 - 14 Feb. 1993 and 25 Feb. - 31 May 1993, cat. no. 81
2021, London, Piano Nobile, Sickert: The Theatre of Life, 24 Sept. - 17 Dec. 2021, cat. no. 17
Literature
Marjorie Lilly, Sickert: The Painter and his Circle, Elek, 1971, pl. 11Wendy Baron, Sickert, Phaidon, 1973, under cat. no. 316
Keith Roberts, 'Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions', The Burlington Magazine, vol. 120, no. 901 (April 1978), pp. 246 and 251, fig. 61 (illus.)
Richard Shone, Sickert, Phaidon, 1988, p. 71, pl. 50
Wendy Baron and Richard Shone, Sickert Paintings, exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts, 1992, cat. no. 81, pp. 234-235 (col. illus.)
David Peters Corbett, Sickert, Tate Publishing, 2001, fig. 33 (col. illus.)
Wendy Baron, Sickert: Paintings and Drawings, Yale University Press, 2006, cat. no. 423, p. 412 (illus.)
Wendy Baron, Luke Farey and Richard Shone, Sickert: The Theatre of Life, exh. cat., Piano Nobile Publications, 2021, cat. no. 17, pp. 88-89 (col. illus.)
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