Walter Sickert - Rue St Jacques, Dieppe (c1903)
Walter Sickert (1860-1942) Rue St Jacques, Dieppe (c1903) oil on card, signature on right and ‘Dieppe,’ in Sickert’s handwriting on left. The painting is housed in its original handmade scooped frame with a white painted slip.
Dimensions: 23 cm x 31 cm, with frame 46.5 cm x 38 cm.
There are four pin-holes in each corner which is consistent with how Sickert worked.
Painting essay
There are more versions of St Jacques by Sickert to survive than any other site in Dieppe, he worked around the church inch-by-inch to leave no aspect unrecorded. This version is a low-toned, crepuscular painting of a similar view to the painting discovered by Wendy Baron and sold at Sotheby’s (lot 140) on June 9th 2015 and included on the last slide here as a comparison.
In this version, the view towards St Jacques is fore-shortened, the flags on the left of the painting are darker and almost dissolve into the fabric of the buildings, a figure of a man walking is added in place of the group of figures in the Baron painting. The road surface, applied in squarish dabs of dryish paint, is sombre brown with smudged patches of black and the whole picture is much more fluid in technique - the shadow on the church is in Sickert’s favourite olive green.
Walter Sickert (1860-1942) Rue St Jacques, Dieppe (c1903) oil on card, signature on right and ‘Dieppe,’ in Sickert’s handwriting on left. The painting is housed in its original handmade scooped frame with a white painted slip.
Dimensions: 23 cm x 31 cm, with frame 46.5 cm x 38 cm.
There are four pin-holes in each corner which is consistent with how Sickert worked.
Painting essay
There are more versions of St Jacques by Sickert to survive than any other site in Dieppe, he worked around the church inch-by-inch to leave no aspect unrecorded. This version is a low-toned, crepuscular painting of a similar view to the painting discovered by Wendy Baron and sold at Sotheby’s (lot 140) on June 9th 2015 and included on the last slide here as a comparison.
In this version, the view towards St Jacques is fore-shortened, the flags on the left of the painting are darker and almost dissolve into the fabric of the buildings, a figure of a man walking is added in place of the group of figures in the Baron painting. The road surface, applied in squarish dabs of dryish paint, is sombre brown with smudged patches of black and the whole picture is much more fluid in technique - the shadow on the church is in Sickert’s favourite olive green.
Walter Sickert (1860-1942) Rue St Jacques, Dieppe (c1903) oil on card, signature on right and ‘Dieppe,’ in Sickert’s handwriting on left. The painting is housed in its original handmade scooped frame with a white painted slip.
Dimensions: 23 cm x 31 cm, with frame 46.5 cm x 38 cm.
There are four pin-holes in each corner which is consistent with how Sickert worked.
Painting essay
There are more versions of St Jacques by Sickert to survive than any other site in Dieppe, he worked around the church inch-by-inch to leave no aspect unrecorded. This version is a low-toned, crepuscular painting of a similar view to the painting discovered by Wendy Baron and sold at Sotheby’s (lot 140) on June 9th 2015 and included on the last slide here as a comparison.
In this version, the view towards St Jacques is fore-shortened, the flags on the left of the painting are darker and almost dissolve into the fabric of the buildings, a figure of a man walking is added in place of the group of figures in the Baron painting. The road surface, applied in squarish dabs of dryish paint, is sombre brown with smudged patches of black and the whole picture is much more fluid in technique - the shadow on the church is in Sickert’s favourite olive green.