LONDON -- Walter Sickert (1860-1942) has a good claim to being the father of modern British art. A student of Whistler, he was a friend of Degas, knew Manet, and through his own work transmitted ...
Sickert didn’t go in for glamour or flattery and the subjects of many of his best works are things seen off to the side, a bit inconsequential. From 1952: The critic ponders the plight of professional ...
A very rarely seen painting by the British artist Walter Sickert, which was once owned by the Hollywood “gangster” actor Edward G. Robinson, is going on sale in London on 26 September. Ennui (1913) is ...