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Walter Sickert (1860-1942): Painting and Transgression

Chris Boicos, professor of art history for the University of Southern California Paris program and founder (2007) and main lecturer for Paris Art Studies

Walter Sickert (1860-1942) is one of the few English painters of his day to entertain close relations with his French contemporaries, notably Edgar Degas, Jacques-Émile Blanche, Pierre Bonnard and Claude Monet, but also Camille Pissarro whom he met during his long sojourns in Normandy in the 1890s. His paintings of London music halls and the shabby interiors of Bohemian Camden town were considered quite shocking in the conservative London art world of the early 1900s. His cityscapes of Dieppe or Venice have, on the other hand, a mysteriously luminous and dreamy atmosphere that aligns them with late 19th century Symbolism. Post-WWI he increasingly used press photographs as his pictorial source on canvases encrusted with subtle and sensuous layers of matte paint. Indeed, his approach to the figure and earthy color schemes had  a great impact on future British figurative painters such as Stanley Spencer, Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon. Join us and Chris Boicos to discover a great early modern master seldom shown outside of Great Britain.

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