Literature: L. Browse, Sickert, London, 1960, illustrated pl. 93.
W. Baron, Sickert, London, 1973, n. 405.
Baron 2006, n. 694, illustrated.
Provenance: Christie's Sale, 26 July 1957, lot 109;
with Roland Browse and Delbanco, London (label on verso);
Malcolm Young, 1960;
with Roland Browse and Delbanco, London, where acquired by a Private Collection in 1964;
Sotheby’s Sale, Modern & Post-War British Art, 17 - 18 November 2015, London, lot 148.
Exhibition: Roland Browse and Delbanco, Sickert 1860-1942, London 1960, n. 35;
Arts Council of Great Britain, Tate Gallery, Sickert. Paintings and Drawings, London 1960, n. 175 (lent by Young).
Sickert painted this little oil based on a black and white photograph (Islington Sickert Collection) representing himself listening to a fiddler in Highbury Place, the last of his ateliers and painting schools.
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