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Article: Sickert's human canvas: Peyton Skipwith reviews Abbot Hall's searching exhibition of Sickert's painting, the most significant for over a decade.(Critical Essay)
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- October 1, 2004
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By major exhibition standards, the exhibition at Abbot Hall, Kendal, is quite modest, consisting of only forty-three works, but it is the most important and serious display of Sickert's paintings since the Royal Academy's 1992 exhibition, which was three times the size. Subtitled 'The Human Canvas', the exhibition contains a substantial core of those uncompromising single and double figure canvases we so readily associate with Sickert and Camden Town; indeed, on entering the exhibition the visitor is immediately confronted with a vista through to the Tate Gallery's large version of Ennui, which I have never seen so well displayed, both in regard to hanging and background. ...
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