Walter Sickert
A Little Cheque (The Large Plate), 1914
Etching and soft-ground etching touched with pencil on wove paper
Plate: 31 x 23.9 cm / 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 in
Sheet: 33.6 x 26.5 cm / 13 1/4 x 10 1/2 in
Sheet: 33.6 x 26.5 cm / 13 1/4 x 10 1/2 in
Third state (of three); Unique proof
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Provenance
Leicester Art Books, LondonThe Fine Art Society and C. G. Boerner, 2002
The Herbert and Ann Lucas Collection, Los Angeles, May 2005
Exhibitions
London, The Leicester Galleries, An Exhibition of the Etched and Engraved Work of Walter Sickert, A.R.A. from 1884 to 1924, Jan. 1925, cat. no. 47 ('touched trial proof')*Perth, Art Gallery of Western Australia, The Leicester Galleries' Collection of Sickert Etchings, 3 June – 1 July 1979, cat. no. 27, touring to Melbourne, University Gallery, 11 Sept. – 21 Oct. 1979*
New York, C. G. Boerner/The Fine Art Society, Sickert: Pages Torn from the Book of Life. An Exhibition of Prints, 1883–1929, 10 – 25 Oct. 2002, cat. no. 32*
London, Piano Nobile, Sickert: Love, Death & Ennui. The Herbert and Ann Lucas Collection, 26 Sept. – 19 Dec. 2025, no. 49*
Literature
Ruth Bromberg, Walter Sickert: Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné, Yale University Press, 2000, cat. no. 152, pp, 174–175 (this impression illus.)*Gordon Cooke and Richard Shone, Sickert: Pages Torn from the Book of Life, exh. cat., The Fine Art Society, 2002, cat. no. 32, pp. 46–47 (this impression col. illus.)*
Wendy Baron, 'The Many Faces of Dora Sly', The Burlington Magazine, vol. 145, no. 1204 (July 2003), p. 516
Wendy Baron, Sickert: Paintings and Drawings, Yale University Press, 2006, cat. no. 422.6, p. 412
Kate Aspinall, Luke Farey and Stuart Lucas, Sickert: Love, Death & Ennui. The Herbert and Ann Lucas Collection, exh. cat., Piano Nobile, 2025, no. 49, pp. 104–105 (col. illus.)
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