WALTER RICHARD SICKERT (BRITISH 1860-1942)THE APPLE Oil on canvas Signed 'Richard Sickert ARA' (lower left)48.5 x 45cm (19 x 17½ in.)Painted circa 1929.Provenance:Dr. Robert Emmons and by descentThomas Agnews & Sons Ltd., London Sale, Sotheby's, London, 19 July 1989, lot 316Basler Kunst und Antiquaten Cie, Basle (1983)Sandra Lummis Fine Art, London Exhibited:London, Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd., Retrospective Exhibition of Pictures by W.R. Sickert, A.R.A., November-December 1933, no. 31 (lent by Emmons)Possibly London, Leicester Galleries, Recent Paintings by Richard Sickert, April-May 1940, no, 6 as Apple of EveLondon, Leicester Galleries, Paintings and Drawings by W.R. Sickert from the Collection of Dr. Robert Emmons, May-June 1950, no. 2London, Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd., Centenary Exhibition of Pictures from Private Collections, March-April 1960, no. 102Literature:Wendy Baron, Sickert Paintings and Drawings, New Haven and London, 2006, p. 459, no. 509 (illustrated in colour)