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Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (British, 1860-1942) The Old Bedford signed and inscribed 'Sickert/(The Old Bedford) (lower left) watercolour, black and white chalk on buff paper 12 5/8 x 4 7/8 in.(32 x 12.4 cm.)
The subject of music halls held a deep fascination for Sickert, and none was more prominent in his oeuvre than the Bedford Music Hall in Camden, which he began painting extensively in the 1880s and 90s (Old Bedford), and then later after its refurbishment in the early years of the twentieth-century (New Bedford). Writing to his great friend and patron Mrs Hugh Hammersley in December 1907, Sickert commented on his obsession with the theatre. 'I am returned to my old love the Bedford and I hope to illustrate the new building as I have already done the old one. My first drawing of the gallery there is dated 1886. Twenty years of (intermittent) fidelity is a record!' (W. Baron, Sickert: Paintings and Drawings, New Haven and London, 2006, p. 327. Works from the two series of the Bedford works exist in the Tate and also prominently in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool which hold many of Sickert's lucid preparatory sketches.