Walter Sickert
The Acting Manager, 1884
Etching on wove paper
Plate: 23.6 x 23.4 cm / 9 1/4 x 9 1/4 in
Sheet: 40.8 x 39.1 cm / 16 x 15 3/8 in
Sheet: 40.8 x 39.1 cm / 16 x 15 3/8 in
Only state
Copyright The Artist
Provenance
Mrs Richard D'Oyly Carte (née Helen Couper-Black)The Fine Art Society, London
The Herbert and Ann Lucas Collection, Los Angeles, May 2000
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. 37London, The Leicester Galleries, Etchings and Engravings by Walter Richard Sickert, Oct. 1941, cat. no. 1
London, Thomas Agnew & Sons, Centenary Exhibition of Etchings & Drawings by W. R. Sickert, 15 March – 14 April 1960, cat. no. 5
New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, Walter Sickert as Printmaker, 21 Feb. – 15 April 1979, cat. no. 24
London, The Fine Art Society, Walter Sickert: Paintings, Drawings & Prints, 8 May – 15 June 2000, cat. no. 1*
London, Piano Nobile, Sickert: Love, Death & Ennui. The Herbert and Ann Lucas Collection, 26 Sept. – 19 Dec. 2025, no. 1*
Literature
J. Middleton Murry, 'The Etchings of Walter Sickert', Print Collector's Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 1 (Feb. 1923), pp. 33–34, pl. 1 (illus.)Aimée Troyen, Walter Sickert as Printmaker, exh. cat., Yale Center for British Art, 1979, cat. no. 24, pp. 16–17 (illus.)
Ruth Bromberg, Walter Sickert: Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné, Yale University Press, 2000, cat. no. 52, pp. 66–67 (illus.)*Walter Sickert: Paintings, Drawings & Prints, exh. cat., The Fine Art Society, 2000, cat. no. 1, p. 5 (this impression col. illus.)*
Wendy Baron, Sickert: Paintings and Drawings, Yale University Press, 2006, cat. no. 8.1, pp. 103, 149
Kate Aspinall, Luke Farey and Stuart Lucas, Sickert: Love, Death & Ennui. The Herbert and Ann Lucas Collection, exh. cat., Piano Nobile, 2025, no. 1, pp. 26–27 (col. illus.)*
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