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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2009.90.26
People
Walter Sickert, British (Munich, Germany 1860 - 1942 Bathampton, Somerset, England)
Title
A Man Reading; verso: Head
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
19th-20th century
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/317290

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite and touches of black and white chalk on cream wove paper; verso: brown and gray ink
Dimensions
24.8 x 22.1 cm (9 3/4 x 8 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: L.l., graphite: Sickert
  • inscription: Back of frame, upper left, in white pastel (?): 568ABC/42
  • inscription: Back of frame, upper right, in red pencil: 72829(or 5?)17/1
  • label: back of frame, blue ink, in unknown hand: BLACK PENCIL AND CHALK, HEIGHTENED WITH / WHITE, 25.5 cm X 23 cm. / FROM COLLECTION: DR. NICHOLAS KESSLER. / THE DRAWING CAN BE CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH / THE SERIES MADE BY THE ARTIST IN CONNEXION / WITH THE CAMDEN TOWN MURDER.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Dr. Nicholas Kessler. [Clive Farahar & Sophie Dupré, Calne, Wiltshire], sold; to Patricia Cornwell, 17 August 2006(?); gift to Harvard Art Museum, 2009

NOTE: The available documentatin does not specify the drawing by title only by medium.

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
2009.90.26
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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