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Walter Sickert
The Old Bedford – A Music-Hall Singer, 1888, c.Etching on laid paperSheet: 11.5 x 8.8 cm / 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 inOnly state; Unique proofCopyright The Artist"I look into your lovely eyes "I hear your gentle voice "You come to me from Paradise "And bid my soul rejoice""I look into your lovely eyes
"I hear your gentle voice
"You come to me from Paradise
"And bid my soul rejoice"Provenance
Mrs George Swinton
Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 1972
The Fine Art Society, London
The Herbert and Ann Lucas Collection, Los Angeles, June 2013
Exhibitions
London, Thomas Agnew & Sons, Master and Pupil: An Exhibition of Etchings by James McNeill Whistler and Walter Richard Sickert, 2 – 28 March 1972, cat. no. 52*London, The Fine Art Society, Sickert: From Life, 20 June – 11 July 2013, cat. no. 5*
London, Piano Nobile, Sickert: Love, Death & Ennui. The Herbert and Ann Lucas Collection, 26 Sept. – 19 Dec. 2025, no. 7*
Literature
Ruth Bromberg, Walter Sickert: Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné, Yale University Press, 2000, cat. no. 110, p. 96 (this impression illus.)*
Wendy Baron, Gordon Cooke and Robert Upstone, Sickert: From Life, exh. cat., The Fine Art Society, 2013, no. 5, pp. 14–15 (col. illus.)*
Kate Aspinall, Luke Farey and Stuart Lucas, Sickert: Love, Death & Ennui. The Herbert and Ann Lucas Collection, exh. cat., Piano Nobile, 2025, no. 7, pp. 36–37 (col. illus.)*