Title
Sketch for 'The raising of Lazarus'
1929-1932
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1929-1932
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 71.1 x 28.0 cm stretcher; 97.0 x 57.0 x 5.5 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed l.l., black paint "Sickert". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Margaret Olley 1994
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 14.1994
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Walter Richard Sickert
Works in the collection
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About
In 1929 Walter Sickert was given a life-size lay figure, alleged to have once belonged to William Hogarth, and the sight of it being delivered to his studio inspired him to paint three works based on the event which he reinterpreted as the raising of Lazarus.
Eager to record the scene before it faded in his mind, Sickert painted the first of the three works directly onto the wallpaper of his studio wall; this hastily painted version is now in the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia. In fact, Sickert was so inspired by the event he had it re-enacted and professionally photographed with himself posed as Christ, and Cecily Hey as Lazarus' sister.
'Sketch for 'The raising of Lazarus'' is the second, and much smaller study, and was painted by Sickert as a rehearsal for the final version which is now in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 7 exhibitions
Paintings by Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A., Beaux Arts London, London, Jul 1933–Jul 1933
Notable paintings by Richard Sickert, Beaux Arts London, London, Apr 1937–May 1937
An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Walter Sickert, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Jan 1953–Jan 1953
Walter Richard Sickert 1860-1942: Paintings and Drawings from Public and Private Collections in Australia, David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, Sydney, 14 Aug 1980–30 Aug 1980
Sickert Paintings, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 20 Nov 1992–14 Feb 1993
Sickert Paintings, Van Gogh Museum, The Netherlands, 25 Feb 1993–31 May 1993
Great gifts, great patrons, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 Aug 1994–19 Oct 1994
Modern Britain 1900-1960, NGV: International, Melbourne, 15 Nov 2007–24 Feb 2008
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Bibliography
Referenced in 11 publications
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Great gifts, great patrons: an exhibition celebrating private patronage of the Gallery, Sydney, 1994. no catalogue numbers
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Wendy Baron OBE, Sickert: paintings and drawings, New Haven, 2006. cat.no.698.2
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Wendy Baron OBE, Sickert, London, 1973, 380. mentioned in reference to cat.no. 404
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Wendy Baron OBE and Richard Shone (Editors), Sickert Paintings, London, 1992, 294, 295 (colour illus.). cat.no. 106
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Beaux Arts London, Paintings by Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A., London, 1933. cat.no.19
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Beaux Arts London, Notable paintings by Richard Sickert, London, 1937. cat.no.17
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David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, Walter Richard Sickert 1860-1942: Paintings and Drawings from Public and Private Collections in Australia, Sydney, 1980. cat.no.33
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Ted Gott, Laurie Benson and Sophie Matthiesson, Modern Britain 1900-1960, Melbourne, 2007, 76 (colour illus.).
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Anne Kirker and Peter Tomory, British painting 1800–1990 in Australian and New Zealand public collections, Sydney, 1997, 158. cat.no. 1971
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Royal Scottish Academy, An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Walter Sickert, Edinburgh, 1953. cat.no.106
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Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, Walter Sickert: 'drawing is the thing', Manchester, 2004, (illus.).
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Provenance
Beaux Arts London, London/England, presented by Sickert to Major Lessore (Sickert's brother-in-law) owner of Beaux Arts Gallery, London
Rt Hon Trevor Roberts (2nd Baron Clwyd), England, by 1953, lent to 'An exhibition of paintings and drawings by Walter Sickert' 1953
Fine Art Society (London), London/England
Robert Haines, pre Dec 1993, Sydney/New South Wales/Australia
Margaret Olley, pre 24 Feb 1994, Sydney/New South Wales/Australia, Gift of Margaret Olley 1994