Interior Of Venetian Palace Oil On Canvas Signed Sickert

Very beautiful oil on canvas signed by the English painter Walter Sickert (Munich, 1860 - Bath, 1942) representing an Italian palace interior, probably Venetian, canvas signed lower right. In a very beautiful gilded wooden frame in excellent condition.
A relatively atypical subject of the painter but of which we know a few other similar examples.

Walter Sickert was close to the American James Abbott McNeill Whistler and to French people such as Edgar Degas, Jacques-Émile Blanche and Pierre Bonnard – he would profoundly influence the British painters of the following generation and is among the greatest painters of the period and the history of British art.

Provenance: Label on the back: Alan G. Thomas, bookseller in Bournemouth, n°145 of the 1957 catalog

"From 1894 to 1904, Walter Sickert made regular stays in Venice. He painted views of the city, notably the cathedral Saint-Marc inspired by Monet's series on Rouen, but for his part works according to studies and not on the motif. He also likes to show interiors, with rich decor but with the disturbing absence of characters, or even scenes intimate views of women in their bedroom. If this period is for the Englishman that of a thematic change, caused as much by a lack of inspiration in the representation of the human figure as by financial concerns, its profound nature does not take long to resurface. Sickert then hoped that his landscapes – a large number of which he also painted in Dieppe, where he lived from 1898 to 1905 – would sell more easily than his enigmatic music hall scenes, his portraits dedicated to depicting the soul of the model or his provocative nudes..."

(Exhibition “Walter Sickert, painting and transgressing” at the Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris)