Walter Sickert
Englisches Café, München, 1886
Etching on wove paper
Plate: 24.3 x 21.7 cm / 9 1/2 x 8 1/2 in
Sheet: 49.6 x 33.5 cm / 19 1/2 x 13 1/4 in
Sheet: 49.6 x 33.5 cm / 19 1/2 x 13 1/4 in
First state (of three); Unique proof
Copyright The Artist
Sickert and his wife Nellie were abroad for much of summer 1886. He set off for Paris in June and did not return to London until October. This first state...
Sickert and his wife Nellie were abroad for much of summer 1886. He set off for Paris in June and did not return to London until October. This first state impression of Englisches Café, München is dated on the plate 21 September 1886, an inscription that was subsequently erased in the third and final state. The Sickerts’ trip to Switzerland was bookended by sojourns in Dresden and Munich, the latter being his birthplace and childhood home of eight years.
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, The Fine Art Society, The Ruth and Joseph Bromberg Collection of Sickert Prints and Drawings, 21 Sept. – 21 Oct. 2004, cat. no. 16*London, Piano Nobile, Sickert: Love, Death & Ennui. The Herbert and Ann Lucas Collection, 26 Sept. – 19 Dec. 2025, no. 5*
Literature
Ruth Bromberg, Walter Sickert: Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné, Yale University Press, 2000, cat. no. 82, pp. 82–83 (this impression illus.)*The Ruth and Joseph Bromberg Collection of Sickert Prints and Drawings, exh. cat., The Fine Art Society, 2004, cat. no. 16, pp. 20–21 (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. 5, pp. 30–31 (col. illus.)*
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