The Happy Valley - Walter Richard Sickert - 1860-1942
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Year: c1919
Medium: Etching, engraving and roulette
Inscribed:
This impression inscribed 'No. 9' lower right.
Size: 8.8 x 13.4 cms
Description:
Only state, Aberdeen Art Gallery and other repositories.
Landscape at Envermeau near Dieppe where Sickert went in 1919 with his wife, with the intention of settling in France permanently. Christine died at Envermeau in October 1920. "One of my last Envermeau pictures was called 'The Happy Valley'. But I can't bear the sight of those scenes now. They are like still-born children". Sickert in a letter 1922.
David Strang printed 22 posthumous impressions (1945-47) for the Sickert Trust before cancelling the plate.
Literature:
Bromberg 181
£700.00
