Walter Sickert
La Rue Notre Dame, Dieppe, 1909
Etching on thin wove paper
Sheet: 32.9 x 24.6 cm / 12 7/8 x 9 5/8 cm
Third state (of sixteen)
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This print depicts a foreshortened view of rue Notre Dame in Dieppe. The vantage point is from the waterfront of Quai Duquesne. The church that rises in the distance is...
This print depicts a foreshortened view of rue Notre Dame in Dieppe. The vantage point is from the waterfront of Quai Duquesne. The church that rises in the distance is St Jacques. Sickert worked La Rue Notre Dame, Dieppe more extensively than any other print in his career. The signature was reworked, figures were added, areas of shadow were elaborated, the contrejour effect of the buildings was deepened with aquatint, and so on. Harold Wright identified twelve states, but the researches of Ruth Bromberg show that the plate in fact went through no fewer than sixteen states.
Provenance
The Fine Art Society, LondonThe Herbert and Ann Lucas Collection, London, Dec. 2002
Exhibitions
London, Thomas Agnew & Sons, Centenary Exhibition of Etchings & Drawings by W. R. Sickert, 15 March – 14 April 1960, cat. no. 130 ('3rd state')
Possibly London, The Fine Art Society, Walter Sickert: Paintings, Drawings & Prints, 8 May – 15 June 2000, ex-catalogue*
London, Piano Nobile, Sickert: Love, Death & Ennui. The Herbert and Ann Lucas Collection, 26 Sept. – 19 Dec. 2025, no. 22*
Literature
Ruth Bromberg, Walter Sickert: Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné, Yale University Press, 2000, cat. no. 134, pp. 138, 140 (illus.)Wendy Baron, Sickert: Paintings and Drawings, Yale University Press, 2006, cat. no. 126.21, p. 238
Kate Aspinall, Luke Farey and Stuart Lucas, Sickert: Love, Death & Ennui. The Herbert and Ann Lucas Collection, exh. cat., Piano Nobile, 2025, no. 22, pp. 62–63 (col. illus.)*
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