2009.90.7: Head of a Belgian Soldier

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2009.90.7

People

Walter Sickert, British (Munich, Germany 1860 - 1942 Bathampton, Somerset, England)

Title

Head of a Belgian Soldier

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1914

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/54724

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite, black ink and black and white chalk on brown wove paper

Dimensions

27.5 x 28.9 cm (10 13/16 x 11 3/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 21 x 14 3/4
• inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 67 [encircled]
• label: from removed backing board: The Fine Art Society PLC / 148 New Bond Street London W1S 2JT / June 2001 17280 / Walter Richard Sickert RA / 1860-1942 / Head of a Belgian Soldier
• label: from removed backing board: The Reid Gallery / 23, Cork Street, London, W.1. / B.1. / "Head of a Soldier" / by W. R. Sickert / Specialists in 19th and 20th Century Drawings

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[The Reid Gallery, London]. Tania Butler, sold May 20, 1999; to [The Fine Art Society, London] sold; to Patricia Cornwell, June 2001, gift; to Harvard Art Museum, 2009

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

2009.90.7

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Wendy Baron, Sickert Paintings and Drawings, Yale University Press (New Haven and London, 2006), no. 446.1

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