Walter Richard Sickert ARA (British, 1860-1942) The Orchestra Pit c.1906...

The Janet Beat Collection
Walter Richard Sickert ARA (British, 1860-1942)
The Orchestra Pit c.1906
Study related to the painting The Old Middlesex
signed with initials (lower right)
ink sketch on buff paper
20.5 x 14cm (8 1/16 x 5 1/2in).
Sickert apparently used the letters in the foreground as aide memoire (the initial letters of the music hall song) to recapture the song and the atmosphere.

Provenance
Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 4 December 2002, lot 217.
With Ewan Mundy Fine Art, Glasgow.
The Collection of Janet Beat (acquired from the above, 4 July 2003).