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 ...

Walter Sickert was a British painter known for his subtly colored interiors, nudes, and city streets. The prevailing mood Sickert struck in many of his works was one of mystery and eroticism. “The ...

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.

When Whistler sent his famous Artist’s Mother to the 1883 Paris Salon, his bright-eyed errand boy was 23-year-old Walter Sickert. Sickert made the trip count, took a long, penetrating look at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yet, perhaps it was those very surroundings that had put it into my head to wire to my brother and ask him to invite Walter Richard Sickert to dinner the night I was returning to London: I knew I ...

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