Walter SickertVineyards

PROVENANCE

Cecil Gray, London (purchased before 1948). Thence by descent.

LITERATURE

Wendy Baron, Sickert: Paintings & drawings, Yale University Press, Newhaven and London, 2006 [cat.781.1, p.561].

Vineyards is a view of Roman Road in Bath, taken from outside the Bladud buildings where Sickert had a studio in 1917, with the crescent of The Paragon on the right and Vineyards on the left (roads in Bath are divided into named terraces).

Sickert painted two versions of this view, the other has a car in the foreground but omits the figure. Both were almost certainly painted from squared-up photographs taken by his third wife Therese Lessore; as the artist was by now an elderly man, his wife is known to have assisted him in the execution of his late works. Sickert died a year later after this work was produced, so it is therefore considered to be one of his very last paintings, in what was a long and illustrious career as a painter.