Lot 1822
WALTER RICHARD SICKERT (1860-1942)
THE OLD BEDFORD (THE SMALL PLATE) (Bromberg 135)
Etching, 1910, the only state, on tan wove paper
11 x 8.2cm.
* This image was etched in 1910 but the music hall had been pulled down 12 years before. The venue had been a particular favourite of Sickert's and he had produced etchings of it as early as 1888. Selective wiping has varied the tone of some of the impressions but the tightly-pressed crowd - some eager and attentive, some perhaps inclined to rowdier participation - capture well the artist's obsession with the spirited atmosphere of a music hall. The total edition size is unspecified as there was a numbered edition of 50 impressions on wove and also unnumbered impressions on laid (some of which were signed).
