Yet, perhaps it was those very surroundings that had put it into my head to wire to my brother and ask him to invite Walter Richard Sickert to dinner the night I was returning to London: I knew I ...

Walter Sickert, "Ennui" (c. 1913–14, inscribed lower left "To Asselin/Sickert/1916"), oil on canvas (all images courtesy Piano Nobile, London) LONDON — As W.H. Auden reminds us, at the end of his ...

Walter Sickert (1860–1942), a leading figure in British art, has been neglected in France, despite his close links with Degas and Jacques-Emile Blanche and his collaborations with the French art ...

Walter Sickert was a British painter known for his subtly colored interiors, nudes, and city streets. The prevailing mood Sickert struck in many of his works was one of mystery and eroticism. “The ...

25.5 x 30 cm. (10 x 11.8 in.) London, Agnew’s Sickert Centenary Exhibition of Pictures from Private Collections, March-April 1960, no. 94; London, Fine Art Society Sickert, May-June 1973, no. 80: this ...

When Whistler sent his famous Artist’s Mother to the 1883 Paris Salon, his bright-eyed errand boy was 23-year-old Walter Sickert. Sickert made the trip count, took a long, penetrating look at the ...