Walter Sickert. Painter of the Third Floor Back - ACE462.4

The beach at Dieppe; views of the harbour and market, etc. Paintings by Sickert intercut with street scenes, including Café des Tribunaux, Dieppe (1890); painting in which, as in others, Sickert "explored the deep shadows of the buildings and the play of light on their walls and roofs". Other paintings including Bathers, Dieppe (1902) and The Façade, St Jacques, Dieppe (1899-1900). Portrait of Victor Lecour (1922-1924), also a study in light; Sickert’s description of the picture quoted over. "More dramatic pictures": sketches and paintings from the 1920s. Trains; buildings in Camden Town and Islington; Hampstead Road: statue of Richard Cobden, father of Sickert’s first wife, Ellen; more street and canal scenes: The Hanging Gardens of Islington (1929). Photograph of Sickert in one of his studios c.1930; the studio today; outside the building. Exterior the Marquess Tavern. Sign for Sickert Court; council housing blocks. Street scenes in Camden Town. A room which "was once his study". Commentary suggests that Sickert’s choice of run-down locations for studio and living spaces was part of a search for "real life". Sketches and paintings including Mornington Crescent nude, contre-jour (1907). The Little Tea Party: Nina Hamnett and Roald Kristian (1915-1916); a study for The Camden Town Murder, or, What Shall We Do For the Rent? (c.1908-1909). Preparatory sketches for Ennui (c.1913), in which Marie, his housekeeper, and Hervé, his servant, are the models. The painting (c.1914); commentary quote Virginia Woolf’s description of it.