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Sickert: Paintings and Drawings (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis)
Sickert Paintings and Drawings - Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis Author:Dr. Wendy Baron Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942) was an artist of prodigious creativity. For sixty years, in his roles as painter, teacher, and polemicist, he was a source of inspiration and influence to successive generations of British painters. — With his roots in the Victorian era, Sickert broke all taboos. He was uncompromisingly truthful, revealing beaut... more »y in the squalid as in the sublime: in cockney music halls, the crumbling streets of Dieppe, the grand sites of Venice, and the low-life of Camden Town. Decades before Warhol, he exploited the potential of photo-based imagery and of studio production lines to create iconic portraits of the grandees of theatrical, social, and political life.
This catalogue is divided into two parts: essay chapters describe Sickert's chronology in terms of stylistic and technical development, and a fully illustrated catalogue presents more than 2800 drawings and paintings, many of which have never been published before.« less