Walter Sickert: a Life

Name: Walter Sickert: a Life
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ISBN: 9780007205271

ISBN-10: 0007205279

ISBN-13: 9780007205271

Edition: 2005

Authors: Matthew Sturgis

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The first major life of the outstanding British painter (and possible Jack the Ripper) Walter Sickert (1860-1942), by the highly acclaimed biographer of Aubrey Beardsley.Walter Richard Sickert is perhaps the outstanding figure of British art during the last hundred years. Many contemporary painters, from Hodgkin and Bacon to Auerbach and Kossof, acknowledge a debt to his influence. His career spanned six decades of unceasing experiment and achievement. As a young artist, he was welcomed and encouraged by Degas. He was the disciple of Whistler and mentor of Beardsley. He founded the London impressionists and the Camden Town Group. He was taken up by both the Woolfs and the Sitwells. He gave…

Book details

List price: $21.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 8/19/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 784
Size: 5.12" wide x 7.80" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

Matthew Sturgis is a freelance writer and critic who has written art criticism for Harpers & Queen, travel pieces for the Sunday Telegraph and football reports for the Independent on Sunday. He is the author of Passionate Attitudes: the English Decadence of the 1890s, and the highly praised Aubrey Beardsley. He resides in London.