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Dimensions: 51 by 40.5cm.; 20 by 16in.
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Provenance: Adams Gallery
Royan Middleton, 1942
Private Collection, Scotland
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Exhibited:
Probably Birmingham Art Gallery, 1949, no.27 as The Feather Boa
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Literature: Wendy Baron, Sickert: Paintings and Drawings, Yale University Press, London and New Haven, 2006, no.464, p.437;
Lilian Browse, Sickert, London, 1960, no.73, p.78, illustrated.
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Notes: Although Sickert's title purports to reveal the sitter's identity, there were a number of women with the name of Marie who were known by the painter during this time. Marie Hayes was a model who posed for many of Sickert's figure paintings between 1912-14 and may have been working for him as late as 1917. Marie Beerbohm also modelled for Sickert and Marie Pépin was housekeeper for the Sickerts during the First World War. We are grateful to Dr. Wendy Baron for her assistance with the cataloguing of this lot.
