One of Madame Villain's Sons
Artist: Walter Richard Sickert (1860 - 1942)
Location: Charleston
Date: circa 1904
Materials: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 40 x 49.9cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £14,000 (Total: £24,000)
Vendor: Anonymous
Review number: 5073 (2002)
Provenance:
Purchased by Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell in the 1920s; brought to Charleston in 1939; Angelica Garnett; Henrietta Garnett; on loan to Charleston since 1998.
Description:
Madame Villain was Sickert's landlady-housekeeper in Dieppe from August 1899. The portrait is believed to be of Maurice Villain, who was Sickert's illegitimate son.
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