Walter Sickert
The Kitchen, 1886
Etching on paper
Plate: 22.5 x 21.1 cm / 11 1/2 x 9 1/4 in
Sheet: 49.9 x 33.6 cm / 19 5/8 x 13 1/4 in
Sheet: 49.9 x 33.6 cm / 19 5/8 x 13 1/4 in
Only state
Copyright The Artist
Provenance
Elizabeth Forbes (née Armstrong)Stanhope Alexander Forbes R.A., by descent
Ruth and Joseph Bromberg
The Fine Art Society, London, 2004
The Herbert and Ann Lucas Collection, Los Angeles, May 2004
Exhibitions
London, Thomas Agnew & Sons, Centenary Exhibition of Etchings & Drawings by W. R. Sickert, 15 March – 14 April 1960, cat. no. 25 (listed as 'The Kitchen, Holland, or Girl in a Kitchen')
New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, Walter Sickert as Printmaker, 21 Feb. – 15 April 1979, cat. no. 32
London, The Fine Art Society, The Ruth and Joseph Bromberg Collection of Sickert Prints and Drawings, 21 Sept. – 21 Oct. 2004, cat. no. 17*London, Piano Nobile, Sickert: Love, Death & Ennui. The Herbert and Ann Lucas Collection, 26 Sept. – 19 Dec. 2025, no. 4*
Literature
Aimée Troyen, Walter Sickert as Printmaker, exh. cat., Yale Center for British Art, 1979, cat. no. 32, pp. 22–23 (illus.)
Ruth Bromberg, Walter Sickert: Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné, Yale University Press, 2000, cat. no. 84, p. 84 (illus.)*The Ruth and Joseph Bromberg Collection of Sickert Prints and Drawings, exh. cat., The Fine Art Society, 2004, cat. no. 17, p. 22 (this impression col. illus.)*
Wendy Baron, Sickert: Paintings and Drawings, Yale University Press, 2006, p. 134
Kate Aspinall, Luke Farey and Stuart Lucas, Sickert: Love, Death & Ennui. The Herbert and Ann Lucas Collection, exh. cat., Piano Nobile, 2025, no. 4, pp. 30–31 (col. illus.)*
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