Walter Sickert Sturgis Matthew
Walter Sickert Sturgis Matthew 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…
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Walter Sickert Sturgis Matthew
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. His career spanned six decades of unceasing experiment and achievement. Many contemporary painters, from Hodgkin and Bacon to Auerbach and Kossof, acknowledge a debt to his influence.
He was the disciple of Whistler and mentor of Beardsley. As a young artist, he was welcomed and encouraged by Degas. 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