Provenance
Jacques-Emile Blanche; Georges Mévil-Blanche
Exhibitions
Musée de Dieppe, Walter Sickert, Jacques-E´mile Blanche, July - September 1954, no. 19. (ii) Sydney, David Jones Art Gallery, Walter Richard Sickert 1860-1942 : paintings and drawings from public and private collections in Australia, August 1980, no. 2, as 'Cliffs, Dieppe'.
Literature
W. Baron, Sickert: Paintings and Drawings, New Haven and London, 2006, p. 157, no. 30, illustrated.
Note: 'This low-toned, fluid sketch of the cliffs of Le Pollet on the far side of Dieppe Harbour and the row of villas where Georges Jean-Marie Haquette (1854-1906), painter of coastal scenes and fisherfolk, had a studio, was probably painted in the mid-1880s.' W. Baron, p. 157
A fine early example showing Sickert's debt to his master Whistler.