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Wonderful Month of May
Walter Richard Sickert (English, 1860–1942)
Medium/Technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
58.1 x 65.1 cm (22 7/8 x 25 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Tompkins Collection—Arthur Gordon Tompkins Fund
Accession NumberRES.32.18
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings
InscriptionsLower right: Sickert
ProvenanceBy 1924, Savile Gallery [see note 1]; 1924, Savile Gallery sold to Leicester Gallery [see note 2]. By 1929, Thomas Agnew & Sons, London [see note 3]; July 27, 1931, sold by Thomas Agnew and Sons through Philip Hendy to the MFA for $10,050 [see note 4]. (Accession Date: February 4, 1932)
NOTES:
[1] According to label affixed to reverse of painting. [2] According to notes on Leicester Gallery documentation in MFA curatorial file, which lists this painting as No. 100 in Leicester Gallery label. [3] Exhibited in "Contemporary British Artists," Thomas Agnew & Sons, 1929, no. 15. [4] MFA accession numbers RES.32.2-RES.32.18 purchased together for $10,050.
NOTES:
[1] According to label affixed to reverse of painting. [2] According to notes on Leicester Gallery documentation in MFA curatorial file, which lists this painting as No. 100 in Leicester Gallery label. [3] Exhibited in "Contemporary British Artists," Thomas Agnew & Sons, 1929, no. 15. [4] MFA accession numbers RES.32.2-RES.32.18 purchased together for $10,050.