30. Walter Richard Sickert
(1860-1942)

Mother and Daughter

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Sickert, Mother and Daughter

Mother and Daughter

Etching, 1915, 158 x 85 mm., Troyen 85 iii/iii; Bromberg 171 iii/iii, proposed edition of about 100. A fine impression of the second state, lettered as published by Carfax & Co., but printed on an irregularly torn sheet of laid paper and therefore most likely a proof apart from the edition. Sickert, who met Whistler in 1879 and studied with him from 1881, was clearly the most talented pupil Whistler ever had. Relations between them soured over a law suit regarding Sickert's views on transfer lithographs and eventually, after years of praising Whistler, Sickert turned his back on him and went on to other things. Both the etchings in this exhibit date from long after the estrangement (and after Whistler's death) but, somehow, even here a bit of the Whistlerian spirit peeks through.