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Walter Sickert - A Life (Paperback)
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Walter Sickert - A Life (Paperback)
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The first major life of the outstanding British painter - and Jack
the Ripper suspect - Walter Sickert (1860-1942), by the highly
acclaimed biographer of Aubrey Beardsley. Walter Richard Sickert is
perhaps the outstanding figure of British art during the last
hundred years. Many contemporary painters, from Hodgkin and Bacon
to Auerbach and Kossof, acknowledge a debt to his influence. His
career spanned six decades of unceasing experiment and achievement.
As a young artist, he was welcomed and encouraged by Degas. He was
the disciple of Whistler and mentor of Beardsley. He founded the
London Impressionists and the Camden Town Group. He was taken up by
both the Woolfs and the Sitwells. He gave painting lessons to
Winston Churchill. His energy was prodigious and his personality
fascinating: he was also an illustrator, cartoonist, writer,
polemicist, teacher and wit. He relished controversy: his early
paintings of London music halls and his late works, based on
18th-century etchings and contemporary news photographs, provoked
outraged criticism from conventional commentators. Sturgis also
devotes an appendix to charting in detail Sickert's posthumous life
as a player in the 'Jack the Ripper' circus, assessing (and
demolishing) the arguments of Patricia Cornwell and others in the
light of his own discoveries.
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