Signed, inscribed and dated in pen and ink on the mount Audinet's Restaurant, Charlotte Street 1883
Literature: R. Bromberg, Walter Sickert: Prints. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 2000, n. 6 only state, one of three impressions recorded.
Provenance: Mrs George Swinton;
With Agnew & Sons, London 1972;
Christie's Sale, The London Sale, London, 03 September 2012, lot 106.
Exhibitions: London, Leicester Galleries, The etched and engraved work of Walter Sickert A.R.A., from 1884 to 1924,1925, n. 1;
Leeds, Leeds City Art Gallery, The Life Work of Walter Richard Sickert, Temple Newsam House, 1942 n. 1;
London, Agnew & Sons Ltd, 1972, n. 35;
This is one of the earliest examples of Sickert's rare experimentation with printmaking, produced under the influence of Whistler.
From the collection of Mrs Elsie Swinton, an amateur singer and friend and model of the artist who once saved this and other etchings from Sickert's wish to destroy some of his early works (Bromberg 2000, p. 16).
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