Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) Typed Letter signed to Walter Sickert, 1927.
Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer, statesman, artist and author, 1874-1965) Typed Letter signed to Walter Sickert, 2pp., 4to, Chartwell Manor, 20th September 1927, thanking him for his letter "and also a telegram which reached Balmoral after I had left and which apparently caused much perplexty", regarding painting instruction from Sickert "I am deeply interested in all you have shown me, and am most anxious to have a further conclave", being taught the camaieu process of painting, arranging for the pair to meet again "and you could then show me how the colouring stage proceeds... The studio will be in working order, and strong, permanent easels... instead of the gimcrack structure on which you found me working", folds, some browning to corners.
⁂ An excellent letter from Churchill who first met Sickert in 1927 through his wife (see next lot). The two men got on well with Churchill welcoming guidance from the renowned painter, commenting in a letter from the time to Clementine that "He is really giving me a new lease of life as a painter." The technique of camaieu (a technique involving thin coats in two or three tints of one colour), much used by Sickert, would prove to be highly influential in Churchill's own painting.
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Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer, statesman, artist and author, 1874-1965) Typed Letter signed to Walter Sickert, 2pp., 4to, Chartwell Manor, 20th September 1927, thanking him for his letter "and also a telegram which reached Balmoral after I had left and which apparently caused much perplexty", regarding painting instruction from Sickert "I am deeply interested in all you have shown me, and am most anxious to have a further conclave", being taught the camaieu process of painting, arranging for the pair to meet again "and you could then show me how the colouring stage proceeds... The studio will be in working order, and strong, permanent easels... instead of the gimcrack structure on which you found me working", folds, some browning to corners.
⁂ An excellent letter from Churchill who first met Sickert in 1927 through his wife (see next lot). The two men got on well with Churchill welcoming guidance from the renowned painter, commenting in a letter from the time to Clementine that "He is really giving me a new lease of life as a painter." The technique of camaieu (a technique involving thin coats in two or three tints of one colour), much used by Sickert, would prove to be highly influential in Churchill's own painting.
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