As a former stage actor with a love of Shakespeare, the British painter Walter Sickert liked to inject an element of showmanship into his painting. His early fame in the late 1880s sprang from his ...

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 ...

Based on newspaper photographs, playbills and publicity shots scaled up for transfer onto canvas, they make a strong argument for viewing Sickert as a modernist – a precursor to artists like Marlene ...

There’s a fantastically sinister series of self-portraits at the start of Tate Britain’s “riveting” new Walter Sickert exhibition, said Laura Cumming in The Observer. Sickert (1860-1942) paints ...

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 (1860-1942) detested the “effete” and decorous style of his late Victorian and Edwardian contemporaries, said Rachel Campbell-Johnston in The Times. The German-born British painter was ...

Andrew Graham-Dixon tells the story of Paul Nash, who was scarred by the First World War and the ghosts of his experiences haunted his future work. Andrew Graham-Dixon tells the story of artist Walter ...

The crime novelist Patricia Cornwell has promised to donate 82 works by the English Impressionist painter Walter Sickert to Harvard University’s Fogg Art Museum, The Art Newspaper reports. The ...

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Before reaching that last room, I’d spent the entire exhibition trying to fathom this artist who seems as slippery as an eel. Light – its presence or absence – was clearly an ongoing preoccupation.