Walter Richard Sickert 1860-1942
Walter Richard Sickert, born in Munich, Germany, was a painter and printmaker who was recognised during his own lifetime as an important artist, and in the years since his death has increasingly gained a reputation as one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century British art.
Starting out his career as a pupil and assistant to James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Sickert later met Edgar Degas whose use of pictorial space and emphasis on drawing would have an influential effect on Sickert's work. Sickert developed a personal version of Impressionism deploying sombre colouration. He was fascinated by urban culture and consequently worked from studios in working-class areas in London, such as Camden Town, in which location he would create a series of paintings on a local gruesome murder on a prostitute that took place in 1907. This series The Camden Town Murder caused controversy not only because of the title but also due to the lugubrious nudes depicted in the paintings and ensured attention for Sickert's work. He furthermore was a founding member of the Camden Town Group, a group of British painters influenced by Post-Impressionism and Expressionism, concentrating on drab daily domestic scenes. Sickert not only concentrated on domestic scenes; scenes of Venice, music halls, theatre scenes and portraits were also important parts of his body of work. He consistently created his paintings in his studio working from drawings made on the spot and later from news photographs or snap shots. Sickert was universally acknowledged as a colourful, fascinating and charming artist, who championed progress and modernity in painting, but who remained an independent figure who was difficult to catagorise under the major movements in British art. His status as a notable but underestimated figure changed as his work was reassessed in the second half of the 20th century. Exhibitions in the Hayward Gallery in 1981 and the Royal Academy in 1992, as well as several publications on his work have established Sickert's important contribution to British modernism.
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Walter Richard SickertTheatre Performer, 1922-23Pencil on paper35.6 x 22.8 cms
14 1/16 x 8 15/16 ins -
Walter Richard SickertA Box at the New Bedford TheatrePencil on brown paper25.5 x 11.5 cms
10 1/16 x 4 8/16 ins -
Walter Richard SickertA View of the Place Nationale, DieppeOil on canvas65.5 x 55 cms
25 12/16 x 21 10/16 ins -
Walter Richard SickertHealth and WealthOil on canvas76.2 x 66 cms
30 x 25 15/16 ins -
Walter Richard SickertLa Santa - VeneziaPencil, pen and black ink on paper30.5 x 21.5 cms
12 1/16 x 8 7/16 ins -
Walter Richard SickertOh its nice to be beside the seasideOil on canvas63.5 x 53.3 cms
25 x 20 15/16 ins -
Walter Richard SickertReclining Nude on a BedPencil, ink and pen on paper27 x 30.2 cms
10 10/16 x 11 14/16 ins -
Walter Richard SickertSeated Woman, Mornington CrescentOil on canvas51 x 40.5 cms
20 1/16 x 15 15/16 ins -
Walter Richard SickertThe NurseOil on canvas35.5 x 45.8 cms
13 15/16 x 18 1/16 ins -
Walter Richard SickertThe Old BedfordBlack and white chalk on paper27.3 x 21 cms
10 11/16 x 8 4/16 ins -
Walter Richard SickertThe Orchestra PitCrayon and chalk on paper35.5 x 25.5 cms
13 15/16 x 10 1/16 ins -
Walter Richard SickertThe Taming of the ShrewOil on canvas61 x 50.8 cms
24 1/16 x 20 ins -
Walter Richard SickertStudy in Rose, 1903Oil on Canvas54 x 40 cms
21 4/16 x 15 11/16 ins -
Walter Richard SickertPortrait of Thérèse Lessore, Venezia, 1928Oil on canvas76.2 x 66 cms
30 x 25 15/16 ins -
Walter Richard SickertDublin Bay from Phoenix Park, 1930Oil on Canvas42 x 73 cms
16 8/16 x 28 11/16 ins -
Walter Richard SickertGlover's Island from Richmond Hill, 1932Oil on canvas58.4 x 88.9 cms
22 15/16 x 35 ins -
Walter Richard SickertBamboo in the Shadows, 1939Oil on canvas76.8 x 57.8 cms
30 3/16 x 22 12/16 ins
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Modern British Art 2022
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Special Charity Fundraiser for The Trussell Trust
7 - 30 Dec 2020The Trussell Trust supports a nationwide network of food banks to provide emergency food and support to people locked in poverty, and campaigns for change to end the need for...Read more -
Special Fundraising Sale for the National Health Service
29 Mar - 29 May 2020Unfortunately, NHS Hospital staff, on the front line in the treatment of patients with Covid-19, are still working without the proper PPE (personal protective equipment), and there remains a shortage...Read more -
Twentieth Century British Art 2012
6 - 21 Dec 2012Artists whose work is presented include: Frank Auerbach Tony Bevan John Bratby Edward Burra Jake & Dinos Chapman Geoffrey Clarke Prunella Clough John Davies Eric Gill David Hockney Gary Hume...Read more -
Beyond the Human Clay
5 May - 18 Jun 2011In 1976 the great figurative painter and polemicist R.B. Kitaj organized a group exhibition for the Arts Council of Great Britain entitled The Human Clay. To mark the 35th anniversary...Read more -
From Life. Radical figurative art from Sickert to Bevan
Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Tony Bevan, David Bomberg, William Coldstream, Leon Kossoff, Walter Sickert, Euan Uglow 10 Sep - 18 Oct 2003A spine runs through some of the most radical figurative art in Britain of the twentieth century. Its backbone is drawing and its fibre art school teaching, yet it is...Read more -
A Century of Drawing
Important modern British works on paper from the Camden Town School to Bridget Riley 2 Jul - 29 Aug 2003 -
Twentieth Century British Paintings and Drawings
1 Aug - 27 Sep 2002
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British Art Fair 2022
29 Sep - 2 Oct 2022Founded in 1988, British Art Fair is the only fair dedicated to Modern and contemporary British art. Each year, fifty leading dealers exhibit paintings, drawings,...Read more -
London Art Fair 2022
20 - 24 Apr 2022We are looking forward to exhibiting at the rescheduled London Art Fair in April. Our specially curated presentation will focus on important Modern British paintings...Read more
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British Art Fair 2022
29 Sep - 2 Oct 2022Founded in 1988, British Art Fair is the only fair dedicated to Modern and contemporary British art. Each year, fifty leading dealers exhibit paintings, drawings,...Read more -
London Art Fair 2022
20 - 24 Apr 2022We are looking forward to exhibiting at the rescheduled London Art Fair in April. Our specially curated presentation will focus on important Modern British paintings...Read more