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Artworks
Walter Sickert
The Orchestra of the Olympia, Shoreditch, 1920, c.Etching and engraving on laid paper with 'F J Head & Co' watermarkPlate: 30 x 22.4 cm / 11 7/8 x 8 7/8 in
Sheet: 44.4 x 28.5 cm / 17 1/2 x 11 1/4 inOnly stateCopyright The ArtistThis print depicts a music hall in Shoreditch. The Olympia Theatre was formerly called the New Standard and then the National Standard Theatre. The Orchestra of the Olympia, Shoreditch was...This print depicts a music hall in Shoreditch. The Olympia Theatre was formerly called the New Standard and then the National Standard Theatre. The Orchestra of the Olympia, Shoreditch was begun before the death of Christine Sickert in October 1920 and abandoned shortly thereafter. It was never lettered with the title and exists only in a small number of impressions.Provenance
Ruth and Joseph Bromberg
The Fine Art Society, London, 2004
The Herbert and Ann Lucas Collection, Los Angeles, June 2004Exhibitions
London, The Fine Art Society, The Ruth and Joseph Bromberg Collection of Sickert Prints and Drawings, 21 Sept. – 21 Oct. 2004, cat. no. 127*
London, Piano Nobile, Sickert: Love, Death & Ennui. The Herbert and Ann Lucas Collection, 26 Sept. – 19 Dec. 2025, no. 77*
Literature
Ruth Bromberg, Walter Sickert: Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné, Yale University Press, 2000, cat. no. 191, p. 237 (illus.)
The Ruth and Joseph Bromberg Collection of Sickert Prints and Drawings, exh. cat., The Fine Art Society, 2004, cat. no. 127, p. 108*
Wendy Baron, Sickert: Paintings and Drawings, Yale University Press, 2006, cat. no. 576.2, p. 491
Kate Aspinall, Luke Farey and Stuart Lucas, Sickert: Love, Death & Ennui. The Herbert and Ann Lucas Collection, exh. cat., Piano Nobile, 2025, no. 77, pp. 138–139 (col. illus.)*
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