The Etchings of Walter Sickert

The Rasher


The Rasher by Walter Richard Sickert

 

Etchingc.1920-22194x140mm[287x226mm]

Ref: Bromberg 198 state ii/ii

 

A fine impression printed in black ink on laid paper. Signed by the artist in pencil.

A woman in a hat is seen frying bacon on a stove in the corner of Whistler's old studio at 8 Fitzroy Street. Sickert had taken it over in 1916 but by the time this etching was made it had passed to Duncan Grant. It was ultimately destroyed by a German bomb in 1940.