Participant Info

Artist

Sickert, Walter

Artpiece

Mr. Johnson

Link

Link

Type

Etching

Year_

1915

Dimensions

5 x 3 1/4 in. (128 x 83 mm) | 17 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. framed.

Artist's Life

1860 - 1942

Comments

Young man, seen in profile and facing front, sitting on a chaise-lounge; woman, seen from behind, looking into a mirror and combing her hair in the background; phrase inscribed along shelf or beam, “Fare tutti mestieri svergognati per campar onoratamente”; the small plate, c.1911 (published 1915). Published by: Carfax & Co. in London, England. Inscription content: Lettered with title and production detail: within image, “Sickert del et sc.” (at lower left); beneath image, “MR JOHNSON / Published by Carfax & Co 24, Bury Street, St James’s”.
Curator’s comments: Bromberg identifies one preparatory drawing, ‘Mr Johnson’, 1911 (Private Collection).
Troyen quotes Sickert who wrote in the ‘The Burlington Magazine’ during 1917 that the phrase included within the image was copied down for him by Degas ‘who took “delighted relish in it”‘.
Bibliographic references: Bromberg 2000 / Walter Sickert, prints: a catalogue raisonné (145.IV)
Troyen 1979 / Walter Sickert as Printmaker (81).

Price Paid

$1,800.00

Purchase Date

August 12, 2002

Purchased From

Goldmark Gallery, Uppingham, Rutland

Certificate of Authenticity

Image

Documents

sickert_-_mr_johnson_-_reciept.pdf

Location

G.C.