WALTER SICKERT (BRITISH 1860-1942)SANTA MARIA MADDALENA, VENICE Ink and pencil, squared for transferSigned (lower left), inscribed Maddalena -Venezia (along lower edge) and variously annotated31 x 22cm (12 x 8½ in.)Provenance:Private Collection, Vera Russell, LondonSale, Christie's, London, 4th June 1971Viscount and Viscountess Gort, Hamsterley Hall, County Durham (acquired at the above sale)Thence by descent to the present ownerExhibited:Brighton, Royal Pavilion, Sussex Festival Exhibition: Sickert, June 1962, no. 46 (lent by Mrs Russell)Literature:Wendy Baron, Sickert Paintings and Drawings, New Haven and London, 2006, p. 182, no. 181/4