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Article: Walter Sickert: A Life.
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- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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Walter Sickert: A Life Matthew Sturgis HarperCollins Publishers 30 [pounds sterling]
ISBN 0 00 257083 1
Rebecca Daniels praises the way that Matthew Sturgis has forged an enthralling narrative from the life of a notoriously elusive painter.
'For he is the kindest man in the world', declared the irascible Wyndham Lewis about Walter Sickert. This unusually flowery observation contradicts the standard contemporary view of Sickert as introverted, depressive and even debauched--a gloomy image probably derived from reading his paintings of dingy Camden Town interiors as a reflection of his personality.
Matthew Sturgis's gripping biography is ...