Sickert’s London - ACE247.3

Mornington Crescent Nude, Contre-jour (1907). Auberbach VO. The Studio: Painting of a Nude (c.1906). Details of La Hollandaise. Bedford Hotel; Sickert’s words on getting the model "out of the studio". La Maigre Adeline (1906). L’Affaire de Camden Town (1909); Auerbach believes it’s a composite, part from life, part from drawing. Detail from Dawn, Camden Town (c.1909); Jack Ashore (1911); Auerbach VO. Nude. VO of Cicely Hey in 1960, (sketch of her, The Large Plate (1923)) describing herself as "the last occupant of the iron bedstead". Her diary showing appointments for sittings. Photograph of Sickert. Hey’s VO describes their association. Driving through Islington; VO of Prof. Quentin Bell, Writer, recalling Sickert’s advice on painting by capturing fleeting moments. Ennui (1914). Sickert’s words over "The practice of art … is not a natural thing…". Details of Ennui; sketches of same. John Wonnacott, Painter, talking about how Sickert planned his paintings, and how he believed that the greatest artists were those who worked from small drawings. Peter Ackroyd, Writer, talking about Sickert’s subjects and their settings, "places of anxiety". Bar-room scene; Bell says Sickert "delighted in squalor… at the down-at-heel achievements of the not very well off". Brothel scene. Ennui.