Sickert’s London - ACE247.5

Photographs of Winston and Clementine Churchill. Lady Mary Soames, Writer, talking about her family’s connections with Sickert. Photographs of Churchill; letter from Sickert to Churchill conveying a lesson in painting. Sickert’s words VO. Hodgkin looking through items in the Islington collection; finds two palettes. Photograph of Sickert. Commentary says his later paintings "frequently exploited other people’s work". High Steppers (1938). Brighton Pierrots (1915). Portrait; William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook (1935). Photograph of Beaverbrook in same pose. Auerbach VO says these works were often criticised. Victorian engraving; painting. Portrait of Sir Hugh Walpole (1928). Auerbach suggests that Sickert was always experimenting with styles and methods, and that the painting is done from a photograph. Shone talking about Sickert catching sitters in unguarded moments. Cicely Hey; other paintings: "A page torn from the book of life" says Shone. Claude Phillip Martin (1935). Miss Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies as Isabella of France (1932). Auerbach talking about hand-painted cinema posters (queue for Gone With the Wind (1939)) as being "urgent and definite". Painting. Gavin Henderson, The 2nd Lord Faringdon (c.1935). Portrait. Portrait of Duke of Windsor. Details of the Faringdon, Beaverbrook and Windsor portraits.