Walter Sickert
The Iron Bedstead, 1915, c.
Etching and engraving on wove paper
Plate: 16.4 x 26.1 cm / 6 1/2 x 10 1/4 in
Sheet: 22.5 x 28.3 cm / 8 7/8 x 11 1/8 in
Sheet: 22.5 x 28.3 cm / 8 7/8 x 11 1/8 in
First state (of two)
Copyright The Artist
Provenance
The ArtistThérèse Lessore, by descent
Reg Broadhurst, given by the above
Ruth and Joseph Bromberg
The Fine Art Society, London, 2004
The Herbert and Ann Lucas Collection, Los Angeles, June 2004
Exhibitions
London, The Fine Art Society, The Ruth and Joseph Bromberg Collection of Sickert Prints and Drawings, 21 Sept. – 21 Oct. 2004, cat. no. 89*London, Piano Nobile, Sickert: Love, Death & Ennui. The Herbert and Ann Lucas Collection, 26 Sept. – 19 Dec. 2025, no. 56*
Literature
Ruth Bromberg, Walter Sickert: Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné, Yale University Press, 2000, cat. no. 163, p. 201 (this impression illus.)*The Ruth and Joseph Bromberg Collection of Sickert Prints and Drawings, exh. cat., The Fine Art Society, 2004, cat. no. 89, p. 83 (this impression col. illus.)*
Wendy Baron, Sickert: Paintings and Drawings, Yale University Press, 2006, cat. no. 449.3, p. 429
Kate Aspinall, Luke Farey and Stuart Lucas, Sickert: Love, Death & Ennui. The Herbert and Ann Lucas Collection, exh. cat., Piano Nobile, 2025, no. 56, pp. 112–113 (col. illus.)*