"What shall we do about the rent?"

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2009.90.23
People: Walter Sickert, British (Munich, Germany 1860 - 1942 Bathampton, Somerset, England)
Title: "What shall we do about the rent?"
Other Titles: Alternate Title: The Camden Town Murder
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: c. 1908
Culture: British
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/11245

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black and white chalk on thin green wove paper (discolored to tan)

Dimensions

25.1 x 37.5 cm (9 7/8 x 14 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: l.r., brown ink: Rd St A.R.A.
inscription: brown ink, lower edge, in the artist's hand: Sketch for "What shall we do about the rent?"
label: formerly back of frame, printed and typed: DC-ART / Artist: Walter Sickert / Title: 'Drawing for the Camden Town Murder", 1908 / Size: / Exhibition: 'Sickert and Pissarro' in Association with Richard Nagy / Stock No: 15 / 36 JERSEY ROAD, WOOLLAHRA, 2025, NSW AUSTRALIA 327 8626

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Mark Oliver, London. [Thomas Agnew, London]. Mrs. Robert Coe; The Hon. Robert Coe, Cannes. [Richard Nagy, London, no. 14]. [Bonham's, Knightsbridge, London, 15 November 2005, no. 142, repr.] [Clive Farahar & Sophie Dupré, Calne, Wiltshire], sold; to Patricia Cornwell, 2005, gift; to Harvard Art Museum, 2009

NOTE: Mark Oliver was a pupil of Sickert and owner of the Savile Gallery.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Patricia Cornwell
Copyright: © Estate of Walter Richard Sickert / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year: 2009
Object Number: 2009.90.23
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Wendy Baron, Sickert, Phaidon (London, England, 1973), no. 269.2
Wendy Baron, Sickert Paintings and Drawings, Yale University Press (New Haven and London, 2006), no. 348.3

Exhibition History

Walter Richard Sickert, Lucien Pissarro, DC-ART, Sydney, 08/01/1989 - 08/31/1989

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2009.90.23: "What shall we do about the rent?"